Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Things Come In Time. . . ." There was a time when time and again one would peruse one's TIME, there fail to notice mention of "little St. Mary's (of California)"College Football Team, the "Galloping Gaels," in TIME'S sports news. Example: (failure to mention) St. Mary's, 13 v. the mighty University of Southern California, 6, at Los Angeles Olympic Stadium, last Sept. 26. But now the time has arrived, when TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine, sits up and takes a notice of the efforts of these "Gaels" as in the TIME issue...
...first meeting of the year of the International Council at Phillips Brooks House is a fitting time to say a word or two about the widespread laxness with which most American undergraduates consider, or fail to consider, international affairs. For years the United States in its diplomatic policy has considered herself in a state of "Splendid isolation." At the present time, changes in the financial structure of the world have given impetus to the idea that perhaps America is not so isolated a place after...
...that she alone should soothe howling China and spank obstreperous Japan. In his note to Geneva fortnight ago Stag Stimson firmly put his white-gloved hands behind his back with these words: "It is most desirable that the League in no way relax its vigilance and in no way fail to assert all the pressure and authority within its competence toward regulating the action of China and Japan" (TIME...
...Suspended from the New York Stock Exchange last week for insolvency was Kountze Bros. 61-year-old conservative stock & bond firm. Of 1.3 Exchange members to fail in the past two years, Kountze Bros, was first to place the blame squarely on the declining bond market...
...major one, but its importance in the Texas schedule cannot be inconsiderable. A victory over Harvard will be a distinct scalp for the belt of the bovine aggregation, and after coming the breadth of the country to take on the Crimson football men, the ranchers will not fail to offer enough material for the starved digestions of some home loving Cambridge dwellers...