Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategically located in 79 cities across the U.S. Their job is not only to watch for news stories of more than local interest, but to keep us constantly filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying, thinking. And you may be sure that these correspondents never fail to jack us up when we get off the beam; they are, in fact, our quickest, toughest critics...
...Power resolution for an atomic-power commission to "inquire into all phases of the problem" might yet be opposed. Pleaded Secretary of State Byrnes: "We must not fail to devise the necessary safeguards to insure that this great discovery is used for human welfare and not for more deadly human warfare...
...Most parents regard passing ... as a child's democratic right. . . . Unless a teacher wishes to be picked to pieces . . . she cannot fail a third of her pupils, and so she passes nearly everybody. . . ." Meanwhile, sighs Principal Henry, "precious little education, even for the others, is now going...
Somehow the United Nations (and defeated countries who aspire to join later) must try to adopt realistic budgets, stabilize prices and wages, bring exports & imports into reasonable balance-all factors affecting the purchasing power of currency. If they succeed, the Fund can help them. If they fail, the Fund offers no remedy, and Tory M.P. Oliver Lyttelton's quip will hold true: "It is not the least good putting up a mosquito net to try to keep out a charge of wild elephants...
Most of the businessmen did not even know what they were working on. This bothered them only when they thought that the project, whatever it was, might fail. Du Pont, still trying to live down the "merchant of death" tag, worried most of all. If the project flopped, they were aware of the countless investigations they would face for years to come. As General Groves said, his mind on the $2 billions spent: "If it works, Congress won't investigate it. If it doesn't work, Congress won't investigate anything else...