Word: failed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Daleware was the only state in the East, which has 823 first-year men in College, to fail to include a students in the Freshman Class, Ninety Yardlings come from New York City alone...
...cause America and Britain, though they may undergo great changes, will not become Communist states. More is at stake than economic and political systems. Two faiths are at issue. It is just that problem which these gentlemen below are trying to work out in practical terms. But if they fail, I foresee more wars, more revolutions, greater proscriptions, bloodshed and human misery...
...defensive. With war in Europe came allied blockades, embargos, encirclement. Japan's access to food, rubber, oil, was threatened. Still, "we did not anticipate . . . that America [would] . . . force Japan to make the first overt act." There had never been a conspiracy among Japanese leaders to make war. "I fail utterly to understand . . . this fantastic accusation...
...theology, whose views on church government might well be useful to the present-day church-unity movement: "It is far from impossible that the future reunion of the churches of the Reformation . . " will follow the lines of Hooker's broad-church episcopal theory. . . .But even if he should fail to win us to agreement with him, the reading of his pages cannot fail to put us in a frame of mind in which we shall be more disposed to agree with one another...
...position that many U.S. readers are reaching by themselves, on the basis of news reports from China. Miss Utley's contribution to it would have been more valuable if it ran to less I-told-you-so, and was stripped of strident strictures against those who fail to agree with her at every point...