Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough in advance to give a researcher time to look it up. As for writers who ask the impossible an hour before closing time (e. g., "How do you say 'rubber stamp' in Chinese?"), who want a bushel of research for a ten-line story, who fail to share editors' comments, inside tips, etc. with their researchers -they should be curbed...
...basis for promotions and retirements, patterned on the Navy's hard-boiled "promotion up or selection out'' system. Men who fail to win promotions on ability will be weeded...
...full-page advertisements and the crowing of public-relations counsels will probably fail to convince American audiences that the three millions spent on "Caeser and Cleopatra" were worth it all. The film lacks a concentration of Shaw's humor and a unity of his ideas. On the whole, it is quite a tedious evening...
...gives us, whether we like it or not. . . . There must be few healthy people who would not like to try their hand at broadcasting occasionally. . . . Others may seek their whole livelihood from it. Try the BBC, and no doubt you will get a fair hearing. But if you fail . . . you are finished...
...slowly and uncertainly. Says he: "Matisse knows where he's going, but I never know where I'll land." Completely unpretentious, he admits to being influenced by other artists: "But that's very good! You can't possibly invent painting all by yourself." Paintings that fail to pan out never discourage Pierre Bonnard. "I always work on paintings that miscarry," he says, "They pose exciting problems. It's good to fail...