Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Germany is the only land from which the British public have even the remotest fear of immediate attack, the White Paper referred to Deutschland at some length: "The British Government have noted and welcomed the declarations of leaders in Germany that they desire peace. We cannot, however, fail to recognize that not only their forces, but the spirit in which the population, especially the youth, of their, country are being organized lend color to and substantiate the general feeling which has already been incontestably generated. . . . [German] rearmament, if continued at the present rate, unabated and uncontrolled, will aggravate...
...practical person could fail to choose courses. The conclusive test for him must be the danger of losing tutorial benefits anyway, if courses are not first dealt with, or the danger of losing out on well-deserved honors and scholarships. So tutors and tutorial are neglected. Courses are passed off by hook or by crook. And many a graduate has benefited nothing directly from the education which he, with idealistic and generous endowers, have paid for. Like certain types of preferred stock, the tutorial system is attended to only after all other issues. Sometimes the residue is very slight...
...Counsel Hogan to cry "Irrelevant!" His objection was sustained. Again Counsel Jackson devoted an elaborate series of questions to showing that in the crisis of 1933 Mr. Mellon had backed up his family's banks in the Pittsburgh area, let his chief local rivals' Bank of Pittsburgh fail. "If you can find," sneered Counsel Hogan, "anything in connection with the tax return of this petitioner for 1931 that has anything to do with whether a bank in which he had no interest did or did not receive money from him in 1933, I respectfully submit you will have...
Meanwhile Hearstian Viscount Rothermere peppered Indian potentates with cablegrams urging them to "Stand firm against the Bill!" Since pudding-headed Rothermere seems fated to fail in all political maneuvers, the Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support...
...least 300 years old is the story of the boy who leaves home to make his fortune, returns in manhood to be robbed and murdered by his greedy parents who fail to recognize him. Every few months this item, with setting and characters changed, pops up as gospel fact. Last month the Associated Press carried the story as a news dispatch from Oravisa, Yugoslavia (TIME. Jan. 28). Last week Hearstpapers printed a Universal Service report beginning thus...