Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puncheon will begin at 12 o'clock sharp. Bring your fair damozels even if you fail to get to the touch encounter...
...marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail was described in the British Lancet last month by Professor Howard Walter Florey and colleagues of Oxford.+ The healing principle, called penicillin, is extracted from the velvety-green Penicillium notatum, a relative of the cheese mold. Although it does not kill germs, the mold stops the growth of streptococci and staphylococci with a power "as great or greater than that of the most powerful antiseptics known." Once the germs are checked, the body's white blood cells finish them...
...United States are laboring with infinite patience to arrive at a fair and amicable settlement which will give Japan the utmost reassurance for her legitimate interests. We earnestly hope these negotiations will succeed. But this I must say: That if these hopes should fail we shall, of course, range ourselves unhesitatingly at the side of the United States...
...forms made the income tax's Form 1040A look as simple as a blank check. Despite high penalties for not filing -$10,000 fine or ten years in jail-there was no indication of how the Government hoped to ferret out non-English-reading refugees, warehousemen, etc. who fail to file...
Just as bewildered was the man at the pump. A message from Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes shed no light. Declaring that equitable "apportioning" should be done by filling-station operators so as to exact "as few hardships" as possible, he declared: "You can no more fail in [this task] than can a soldier, a sailor or a worker in a vital defense industry...