Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-hearted attempt on the part of University Hall to meet undergraduate criticism is doomed to fail. There is but one way to settle the matter for the second session, and that is an immediate repeal of the ten-dollar fee for all Harvard undergraduate and graduate students...
Asserting that many fail to realize the extent of this global war, Kohn intends to integrate the news bulletins from various sectors of the far flung struggle into a comprehensive whole, and to describe the prospects as he sees them...
...must make more. Said he: "The people . . . have shown in a thousand ways that they are not in a mood for half measures, either financial or military. They will be critical only if the burdens are unfairly distributed. They will be disappointed in their leaders only if these leaders fail to ask them for all-out effort. ... I hope it cannot be said of the new tax bill that it was too little and too late...
During 18 months the Nazis did this to George Deckers ten times. The Belgian underground magazine La Libre Belgique, which told his story, said that his hair grew whiter and his mind began to fail...
...naked, identified only by a mercurochrome number on their chests. To a tired, jittery "boot," a session with the psychiatrist is like walking the plank. Wary examiners, said Lieut. Harris, are suspicious of boys who speak up first (normal boys are silent until the doctor questions them), those who fail to close the door, or fling down their papers on the table. But regional differences, said the Lieutenant, must be accounted for: a down-east boy might be considered psychotic in The Bronx...