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Definition of Failures
1. failure [n] - See also: failure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Failures
Literary usage of Failures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Industrial Organization by Dexter Simpson Kimball (1919)
"Of these failures 3781 were in manufacturing enterprises involving liabilities
amounting ... No doubt, however, the majority of these failures are caused by ..."
2. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1878)
"John Kemp and Co. last April:— " We append a summary of the failures in England
and Wales, which it has been our duty to publish in Kemp's Mercantile ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"A glance at the cuts shows that failures may be due to imperfect pollination,
... That the scab fungus is the leading cause of apple failures is ..."
4. The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith (1916)
"DIFFICULTIES CONCERNING failures. THE very title of this chapter may perhaps ...
"failures," they will say, "we thought there were no failures in this life ..."
5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"There were several failures yesterday, principally among our dry-goods people,
... failures in New York by this time numbered ninety-eight, with over sixty ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1920)
"By AIEE CLASSIFICATION OF LARGE TURBO GENERATOR failures BY PHILIP TORCHIO Chief
Electrical Engineer. New York Edison Co. THE experience with this class of ..."
7. Report by Illinois Highway Commission (1908)
"THE CAUSE OF BRIDGE failures. A number of bridge failures have been ...
Numerous other partial and complete failures of tube bridges have been viewed. ..."
8. Measuring the Work of the Public Schools by Charles Hubbard Judd (1916)
"It appears when the facts are tabulated that failures increase with school
training,that certain subjects cause so many failures that it is perfectly ..."
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