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Word: faults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shostakovich has dedicated his symphony, a musical expression of war's effect on "ordinary, simple people," to the citizens of Leningrad. Says he: "I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible, and if I don't succeed I consider it's my own fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soviet's Best Bet | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...facts about the academic requisites for Army courses, the dates when they will be given, and relative needs would go a long way toward assuring a steady flow of trainees from planned college curricula. The fault is a vagueness in the plans for the future, and a failure to organize the data for college students. Some of the information has been played down for routine military reasons, although the Japs would gain little from finding out that the Army requires its meteorologists to have two years of math...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awaiting Orders | 2/13/1942 | See Source »

There are others in the cast besides Eddy and his buxom companion, but since most of Hollywood's actors work under contracts that are pretty hard to break, it isn't really their fault...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/11/1942 | See Source »

...good $11,000 shy of the $40,000 goal, Harvard's effort in the United States War Fund Drive is now almost due at the end of the line. At the present rate, no one can be sure it will ever get there (and it won't be the fault of Daylight Saving if it doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brother Can You Spare A Dime | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...fault at all is to be found with the picture, it is its continual telegraphing of punches. You're pretty sure of what's going to happen before it ever happens. In most movies, this would prove a fatal error. In "All That Money Can Buy" it's simply a minor flaw in an otherwise irreproachable and praiseworthy film. Hollywood can still make good pictures. And ones like this almost make up for most of the bad ones...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

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