Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heredity, bad nutrition, lack of care or accident that is the reason many children's teeth gap widely or fail to connect when they close their jaws. This condition is called malocclusion; it is the orthodontists' favorite word and their chief problem...
Although certain to be pushed by some of the nation's fast swimmers, Yale is a favorite for first in every event, with the possible exceptions of the 50 and 100 yard free styles and the back-stroke. Even if the Elis fail to take their quota of first places, however, their squad has the depth to pile up enough seconds and thirds in order to take the team title...
Hungary. Drifting past the villages near Budapest, Hitler might mistake the laughter of gaily dressed women beating clothes along the banks for a sign that all was well in Hungary. But he could hardly fail to feel the tense atmosphere pervading the old brownstone Government buildings overlooking the Danube. Small, impeccable Nicholas Kallay, who last week became Premier after the attempted suicide of Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, would explain: though Hungary and Rumania are allies against Russia, they are, in effect, fighting each other. Both countries know that the one which helps Germany the most will be rewarded with Transylvania. While...
...Berg wound up his study satisfied that he knew what had caused relapses in his patients. Said he: "The cumulative effect of a diet of corrupting melodrama could not fail to product an 'anxiety state.' Even those patients who were cautioned of the baleful effects of listening to these serials found it harder to resist. . . . The hairline that divides the normal from the neurotic . . . can disappear from such influence as the unwitting sadism of suppurating serials...
...providing for an enlistment under V-1 of up to 80,000 men a year. From these, approximately 20,000 men will be transferred to aviation cadet flight training, V-5, and 15,000 to V-7. The other 45,000 who enlisted in V-1 and who fail to pass either the scholastic or physical examination will have no choice but to go into active service in an enlisted status, with little hope of ever getting a commission...