Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opera in London is a ghost that will not be laid. Companies organize, fail, only to have other companies arise behind them. Alone to preserve prestige has been the theatre in which most of the world's historic singers have been heard: famed Covent Garden, in the midst of the principal flower, fruit and vegetable market of the city...
...Harvard the courses in Military Science were instituted and were subject to a large enrollment. At that time the college faculty and authorities found it necessary to give academic credit for these courses in order that the many men who were spending so much time on them might not fail to get sufficient credit. When the Naval Science Department was established after the war was over it was found necessary to continue the practice, not in order to put Military and Naval Science on the same basis, but in order to retain the enrollment, so seriously did the numbers decline...
Export Petroleum Association, Inc. was formed to handle the export business of members. Prices are changed only by a unanimous vote. Large exporters have recently contended that export prices are too high, fail to reflect the supply & demand situation, hinder selling in foreign markets. Some members have been interested in keeping the price high. A few oil companies not belonging to the Association have been underselling it. Last week Export Petroleum Association suddenly withdrew its price schedule; each company will now handle its own exporting, compete with other U. S. companies abroad...
...system commonly used today of flashing electric lights as a danger warning is not wholly successful. Busy miners often fail to notice the signals at once. Often an electric system will be disrupted by the very accident that occasions its use. The odor method is cheap, sure. Even the busiest miner will notice an unusually unpleasant smell...
...candidates actually admitted was made known yesterday at University Hall. The average age of men admitted under the old plan, 18.47, is lower than that of those refused admission. 18.70, Candidates of the latter plan who are refused admission, however, are generally younger than old men who fail. Those admitted on the highest seventh plan are considerably younger than either of the other classes, with an average age of 17.72 as compared with 18.46 for the old plan...