Word: failings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cream were served. With bows and smiles, blue and purple asters were passed to the ladies who had carried the day for the modern form of municipal government. The outcome of the election made round, gallant Manager Hopkins feel as exhilarated as a small boy who, expecting to fail at school, finds he has passed every thing on his report card...
...instance is reported in which a chain deliberately concentrated all its poor assets in one of its members and allowed it then to fail, preserving its good assets in the hands of other members...
...display of courage was typical of him." Nonetheless, Detroit was on its way. That year the Olds Motor Works startled the city by announcing a production of 4,000 cars, and that year the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison had his second company, the Henry Ford Automobile Co., fail...
...upkeep. The 60% remainder is about evenly distributed between taxes and interest. About 10% of the whole income goes to various forms of insurance. Inevitably in about 3 years the owner has lost his equity. The reversion of real estate to the banks has made them fail and the politician senses his downfall. Thirty percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have an indigent population as fatal to progress...
...they have rendered. . . . They have furnished us with loyal help toward achieving our objective with the least possible dislocation and hardship." Pained British taxpayers visioned millions of their money being spent vaguely on "naval repairs." Watching the Hoover-MacDonald naval parings, Japanese Naval Minister Takeshi Takerabe said: "We cannot fail to derive inspiration from such examples...