Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the Center, Harvard students started out in their blood crusade with enthusiasm which has slowly decreased until they now fail to keep their appointments entirely. Last week 19 students didn't appear, leaving vacancies which might have been filled by more willing persons with pints of valuable blood. The Navy has placed its weekly quota at 3000 pints; last week only 2,388 pints were collected, and the weekly average is only...
...Japanese people, at home or abroad, will be very indifferent to, if not amused by, this type of propaganda, but will be profoundly stirred and disturbed when their sense of propriety, pride, and national honor are challenged in a manner and a language that they can not fail to understand...
...doubtful value. Since exercise groups are extremely variable, improvement since last spring is imperceptible, the same maneuvers being repeated month after month. Adding to this the fact that Stimson has come out against pre-induction training, stating that the Army can do in days what schools and colleges fail to do in months, the future and even the present benefits of marching are decidedly dubious...
...creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana or a Rossini, pass for "classical" music. It is up to the popular musicians to get over their inferiority complex...
...Roosevelt, the old warhorse of politics, must have sniffed the autumn air and felt the late-October urge to be out racing through the hustings. The Republicans were on the upsurge; the Democrats were worried; here was a chance to give his magic full play. Nor could Franklin Roosevelt fail to remember that President Wilson had come to disaster when he pleaded for a Democratic Congress in 1918-and to wonder if he could not do better. This, perhaps luckily, was at most only...