Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Turfman Vanderbilt enlarged his racing string to 56. mostly with a parcel of yearlings bought from Walter J. Salmon. This year, Vanderbilt horses have won 57 races, $15,.000 in prizes. It is most unlikely that, in his second season as a racehorse owner. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will fail to be the most successful one in the U. S. Last week, on the day Discovery was winning at Empire City, Vanderbilt horses ran second and third in the Lassie Stakes (richest race for fillies in the U. S.). at Arlington Park, Chicago, first and second in the Massasoit Handicap...
...shining exception, proved to be long-winded and mechanical, written according to the narrow formula of popular magazine fiction. Examples: ¶ A small boy petted a kitten, thereby causing a barber to give an executive a silly haircut, the executive to lose a job, a business to fail, a revolution to break...
...Where? If Cowles & Co. should fail in their Minneapolis venture, they would doubtless retire to their Iowa pasture for a long time. If they succeed, it is a practical certainty that the next year or so will see them buying into another city. They have long been surveying the field, have in their files a complete detailed index about almost every newspaper in the U. S. that might be for sale. With 30 years of active publishing ahead of them, with William Randolph Hearst settling into old age, with Scripps & Howard in their prime, the youthful Brothers Cowles of Iowa...
...fail to report the buildings are beautiful, the architecture authentic, the setting unique and exotic. The trees, flowers and the climate are perfect. It may not be the largest exposition, but what there is of it is all there and with no false fronts...
...when the armies withdraw to their assigned positions, begin to demobilize to 5,000 men apiece, while the neutral commission patrols the strip between. Meanwhile, under the eye of the neutral peace conference, Bolivia and Paraguay will try again to settle their territorial argument by talk. Assuming that they fail again, the controversy will automatically go for arbitration to the World Court...