Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert mountain climbers, care to risk her treachery in the off season, and to those who do, the professional guides in Chamonix offer only negative encouragement. "Risk your neck if you like," they say in essence, "but don't look to us to get you out if you fail...
...response to a New York Times editorial of Jan. 7 which discussed the tendency of Series "E" government bonds holders to cash in their bonds, or fail to buy them in sufficient quantities, Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, declared that the small investor should receive a higher interest yield. His letter appeared in yesterday's issue...
...village Indian from the mountains of Mexico. Every tourist there has seen his like: thin-headed, with a mop of coarse black hair, large-eyed, flat-nosed, full-lipped, looking with impassive dignity from beneath a frayed straw hat. Juanito is the stuff of revolutions, but his private revolutions fail, and he has learned only one thing in life: how to die well...
...immunization against diphtheria, run by Health Commissioner Joseph G. Molner. On every notification of birth registration there is an invitation to the parents to have the child inoculated. There is a follow-up letter a year later, and a recheck when the child enters grammar school. But many parents fail to act because they have been lulled into a false sense of security by today's relative rarity of diphtheria. For them, the disease has lost its traditional terror. And Detroit's problem is complicated by huge population shifts...
...movement, however, has been stymied by the failure of president Donald Hodel '57 to call a meeting of the Planning Committee. He is the only person constitutionally authorized to call club meetings, so without his support any effort to relieve Stalker of his duties would fail. Stalker and Hodel are roommates...