Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime Minister Eamon de Valera usually gets his bills passed in Eire's Bail Eireann (lower house) by a small majority. He has often been irked by the fact that his Fianna Fail Party, with 68 votes out of 138, has had to depend upon scattering Labor and Independent votes...
...would seem that concentrators fail to realize that the division between History, Government, and Economics is often arbitrary, and does not reflect the essential unity of the social sciences...
...question remained to be settled: whether fingerling salmon that are swimming downstream now can get past the dam uninjured. It is hoped that even if they fail to find the exits provided, they will pass unharmed through the turbines revolving at 75 r.p.m...
...Randolph Field at San Antonio, Tex. On Randolph's 1,900-acre main field and six auxiliary fields, overworked instructors are currently schooling the unprecedented total of 440 cadets, 93 student officers, nine National Guard officers. If academic mortality holds up, about half of these will fail, 7% of the graduates eventually will receive Regular Army commissions. Remainder will put in some time at Army pay, go into reserve, await the next...
...Hyde by name, received from Civil Servant Wilfrid Brown formal notification in Gaelic that he had been elected first President of Eire. No vote-counting was necessary for Civil Servant Brown to reach this conclusion, for Dr. Hyde had been chosen by both Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party and William T. Cosgrave's Opposition Party. He had been unopposed for the Presidential nomination...