Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along with this declaration for Prosperity for Labor, the Democratic Nominee' did not fail to point out that automobile production in 1936 promised to be more than three-and-one-half times that of 1932, to observe of Federal! spending: "Literally, the music went round and round and round and a lot of it came out right here in Detroit...
...paragraph headed "Outstanding Events," Dr. Abbot did not fail to give prominent mention in last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds...
...that I have succeeded neither in the world of affairs nor in the literary line. It is not for you to judge my success, and I shall not argue the question with you. I will merely say that I would rather make a try at justice among men and fail in the try than to make the most resounding commercial success out of turning the sorrows and failures of mankind into clever mockery...
...face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
...greatest historians of our day" fail to mention the Drought conference between President Roosevelt and Governor Landon over the "March of Time...