Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never unduly optimistic, British politicians of all three parties seemed to feel that the conference is bound to fail. From the jail in which St. Gandhi sits reports issued recently that he will try to set up in India a "parallel government." If this outlandish scheme is tried, self-appointed Gandhites will try to duplicate all the functions of the Government of India. They already have their own "police" who try and are frequently permitted to keep order at Gandhite mass demonstrations when the regular police find themselves swamped by numbers...
...step to the door of the pilot's compartment and hear weather reports through a radio headset. The plane passes near National Cash Register's factory at Dayton, on to Indianapolis' new municipal airport for another ten-minute stop. Beyond St. Louis no passenger will fail to notice the widening checkerboard of section line's. Thinning population is plainly charted by farm boundaries flung to the horizon...
...have met President Maloney fail to tell their friends about him. Work in the mines gave him a physique such as few tycoons possess; 16-hour mine days gave him an enormous disdain for the eight-hour office day. He speaks briefly, forcefully, never detours issues. His formula for success is simple, not banal: "I have not cluttered my head with things not in my line...
...Ottawa, Ill., George Jakubsen, railroad crossing watchman, drew his life savings, $1,460. from a bank which he was afraid would fail, hid it. Later he looked for the money, could not find it. He brooded, finally killed himself with poison. When officers searched his effects they found the $1,460 between the leaves of a book...
This is not an attempt to enumerate everything that could interest the casual museum visitor or the professional scientific man, since much that is also fine has not been mentioned; but merely a very summary review of those pieces in the Fogg Museum exhibition that cannot fail to interest both layman and specialist...