Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet on that basis. He raised such hopes in Washington that Congressional leaders were persuaded by the State Department to hurl no speeches at France which might make the Premier-designate's task more difficult. With an effort Congressmen & Senators bottled their spleen. Thus aided M. Chautemps proceeded to?fail. He found plenty of French Deputies rueful over what they had done but no majority ready...
...examinations will be marked "pass" or "fail", and in addition to the January ones they are again to be offered in May and semi-annually thereafter. The tests will remain similar to the old oral ones and will contain three short selections for translation into English, one of classical or modern poetry, one of classical or modern literary prose, and one of modern criticism dealing with literary or linguistic history...
...bagged it for Britain in 1909 and set it up as Anglo-Persian. Six days after Britain declared war in 1914 Winston Churchill jammed a bill through Parliament to buy control of Anglo-Persian for His Majesty's Government, so that His Majesty's ships might never fail for lack of bunker oil. Today only the U. S., Russia and Venezuela rank ahead of Persia in crude production. The bulk of the 45,000,000 bbl. annual output is tanked directly to Britain, Anglo-Persian having an agreement with Royal Dutch-Shell not to compete in the Orient...
There are, of course, obstacles to the success of a general "get-together" of the members of a large field. Perhaps most cogent is the truism that concentrators are primarily interested in the subject, not in their co-workers. Any attempt to bring them together may fail simply because of this lack of mutual interest, and because the men are often personally incongenial. Such a difficulty may be overcome, however, if men can be shown the definite advantages which such periodic meetings offer them. By conversation with colleagues a student can be brought into contact with many branches...
...Forum will, of course, be a student's organization. Although not intended as a direct aid to classroom work, it cannot, however, fail to bear upon it, since the discussions will afford training in economic thinking, and many of the topics will undoubtedly be taken up in various courses as well as in the Divisional Examinations. However, these results will be indirect. The primary purpose of the Forum is to give the Students living outside the Houses an opportunity to become articulate on economic ideas and problems...