Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inventor Charles F. Kettering, General Motors research chief, gave the recipe for an inventor: "To make an inventor, all you have to do is take his mind off the idea that it's a disgrace to fail...
Though the tests are twice as long as any finals ever are, they will definitely not be so painful, since no one can fail. "There are no loaded questions in them," said Henry S. Dyer '27, director of the Department of Tests, under whose specifications the examinations were prepared...
...nationwide strike deemed necessary by the telephone workers, contrasted with the satisfactory contracts concluded in the steel and automobile industries, is a timely illustration of the fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...
...photographer, can and is carried to over-extended lengths by the actors of "Ivan The Terrible." Therefore the character development of Ivan, for example, beset by traitor boyar noblemen within his court and hosts of foes without, progresses on a very unrefined level, and a few intimate glimpses fail to humanize a somewhat stereotyped symbol. Contemporary political significance, injected into the concluding scene when Ivan successfully turns to his people for support against his treacherous lieutenants, does unnecessary violence to subtlety for the sake of propaganda...
...Bingham, through your enterprise, Harvard and Brooklyn can clasp hands across a sea of upturned faces. From Williamsburg to Red Hook, from Canarsie to the Gowanus, the eyes of Brooklyn are upon you. You cannot fall them. You must not fail us. The Editors