Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower income classes and reliefers, whence comes his strength, Mr. Roosevelt said warmly: "Some well-meaning people have even suggested recently seriously that the right to vote be denied to American men and women who through no fault of their own had lost their jobs and in order to keep the family and the home going were working on works relief projects...
...shelter. In the first months of the war the Government distributed Anderson shelters (named for Minister for Home Security Sir John Anderson), light steel affairs for back yards. They were designed to 'stop splinters, not bombs, and have proved ad mirable for that limited purpose. Their great fault was that they were not big enough to sleep...
...other stories. Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which hardly deserves the lead spot in the magazine...
...possible causes of the blast, the fourth explosion in U. S. powder works within five weeks,* employes and officials guessed at spontaneous combustion or some fault with the compressor in the recovery building. But, mindful of disasters in U. S. munitions factories during World War I, agents of FBI, the Army and Navy, dug through the Hercules ruins looking for evidences of sabotage...
Says realistic Historian Burckhardt: "Like all the great creative forces in history, Richelieu was a great destroyer. He tore down as much as he built up, yet it was not his fault, but that of his successors, that they did not grasp the profound lesson of his work, the lesson that no wall must be removed unless another and better one is erected...