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Word: failings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...momentarily doubled that the players fail to grasp the opportunities afforded by the script. The characterizations were on the whole indicative of able direction, diligent work, plus a manner of treatment which would not be mis-placed on the most cosmopolitan of stages. Rosemary McHugh and Harry Hutchinson convinced in difficult pats, while John F. Joyce, as Charles Lamb, breathed vital breath into his historical model...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

...majority of the schemes to end the depression propose to do so by inflation. We are told that any plan that will release frozen assets will permit an expansion of credit which cannot fail to stimulate business activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN TAKE THE CASH... | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...lodged and fed along the way. They would have medical attention. They would defend themselves with stones. They would be organized in military fashion. They would petition the President and Congress for relief for the jobless. They would make trouble. Only one thing in their plans did Chief Moran fail to ascertain and that was where the money was coming from to finance such a large undertaking. As usual, Moscow was publicly suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Red Scare | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...investigations by the Save-a-Life League, which Dr. Warren founded in 1906 and since has headed, to determine this hour and to infer a reason for its choice. Said Dr. Warren last week, after a League meeting: "People see want ads on Sunday; look for the jobs and fail to get them on Monday; and on Tuesday decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Suicide Hour | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...dealing with these various interests. An intensity of social life had been achieved which fused them together in the common consciousness and demanded the highest type of poetic expression for the new unity. Plato formulates the conclusions of a very complete civilization, and only a very incomplete one could fail to find them worth discussing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhodes Scholar Contrasts Comparative Maturity of Oxford Freshmen With First-Year Men in Our American Colleges | 12/2/1931 | See Source »

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