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Word: failings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Fletcher's strong Grotonian words fail to abash TIME, which simply quoted the "hideous article" of Columnist Hey wood Broun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...completeness in your Music department? You claim to "note the noteworthy" in record releases. Yet in your July 4 issue, you fail to mention the Franck Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, superlatively played by Rubinstein and Heifetz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Your readers hereabouts, however, fail to perceive the aptness of your simile in alluding to Mr. Bell's independence. No doubt he is a lawyer who fearlessly does his best for his clients; but how is a "hog on ice" an example of independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...vague memory of my son and in vivid hopes of their sons, if parents, while preserving freedom of speech, compel the integrity of public education, then my son may not have died wholly in vain. But should parents fail in this perpetual vigil of peace, then in war will come slaughter between Communist sons and loyal sons -not abroad but at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Patriotic Chore | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...feel sure of China gaining a final victory. Japan will fail both in war and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Recalled | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

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