Word: failings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charges Fail to Surprise Senate Committee...
...that education should not be conceived of primarily as a means to an end, but as an end in itself, that the acquisition of wisdom is infinitely more important than the acquisition of 'know-how.' " On the other hand, "it is conceivable that we shall fail to be wise about these matters and that a mixture of confusion in our own ideas and ideals, and of unthinking imitation of totalitarian practices in countries which build themselves up as our rivals, will initiate or accelerate a process of degeneration in education that will ultimately undermine the way of life...
...Drives Committee, this year's campaign is likely to be the most successful since 1950. Last fall, barely 1000 people signed up to donate blood, and little more than 800 actually gave. Bird estimates, however, that only about ten per cent of this year's registrants will fail to give...
...have never been known to say a kind word about any production or performance previously. Maybe it's the Christmas ghosts finally getting to us Scrooges. More likely, it is the fact that this group puts on shows with such style and spirit that only the lastditch Savoyards could fail to be enchanted...
...intelligent man like India's Nehru fail to realize that Gandhi's doctrine of passive resistance could work wonders against an England with a conscience and yet_ fail disastrously against a Communist China which has no conscience...