Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sally modestly admitted that she was very successful in the years immediately preceding the depression, but that the bank in which she kept her money was the first to fail. She found herself in Chicago, a very hungry actress...
Dean Pound's recommendation is sound and progressive, fully in tune with the changing times. The faculties of the college and the law school should give the plan the most serious consideration, for, once concluded, it cannot fail to hasten the trend towards a closer integration of the last years in school and the first years in college...
Social Credit, preached the Dean, is "about ready to be embraced by the young people in America," but in older England, "the idea must be put to soak for a while." Evidently afraid Social Credit will fail in the hands of Premier Aberhart, the Dean rapped: "I can assure you that a failure, even the collapse of the Government in Alberta, would not mean the end of Social Credit. ... At present banks create money in the interest of Finance. The people should create money in the interest of Production! You get inflation only if you create money faster than...
...Gerling's insistence on economy has had one less happy result this autumn. Finding that pupils who fail of promotion were costing the city $300,000, he ordered the tempo of teaching slowed down. Primary pupils will have less reading: algebra will be taught later in high school; Latin will be spoon...
...heavy philosophical introduction to the work of their protagonist but have made a sincere effort to treat him fairly--and shield him from the frequent adverse criticism which has so often been hurled at him. We were however, a little disappointed, at the introduction to "William Cullen Bryant" which fails, as all introductions to the works of the Prodigy of Cummington fail, to show that he wrote any superior poetry except for the immortal "Thanatopsis...