Word: failings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discipline is lost when those charged with assisting the Government fail to take strict measures to prevent disorders...
...claims made by feminists a few years ago of the vast access of strength and wisdom to the councils of nations which would follow the extension of the franchise to include women, I cannot but feel that there is reason for a certain disillusionment. . . . Women have not merely failed to demonstrate superior political aptitude to that of men, but at no time have they shown even the promise of ripe statesmanship. . . . The incursion of women into industry and politics has failed, is failing, and must of necessity fail...
Should Smith fail to get 43 votes among the Urban States, he still could win. There are four Western States with Democratic leanings. They are: Arizona, 3; Montana, 4; South Dakota, 5; Colorado, 6; totalling...
Human beings, accustomed to the whir of airplanes overhead, remain calm, fail to tremble. Not so giraffes, zebras, sable antelopes, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses. Fearing these charges will dash themselves to death in their fright, Sol A. Stephan, manager of the Cincinnati Zoo (see p. 21), last week requested airport authorities to reroute all airplanes to avoid...
...grand idea. It could hardly fail. The four of us left our tent and went to the starting line, confident that Abrahams would be beaten. ... I drew the inside lane. The moment I looked at the number I knew that the scheme was off. And my teammates seemed to sense it too. For the training that we had had in American athletics prevented us from seizing that kind of an opportunity...