Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel vessels, built at a cost of more than $3,000,000,000, will be sold and scrapped over a period of years to save the nation the cost of their upkeep and the money lost in their operation. Placed on the market in a lump, the government might fail to find purchasers for them all, and certainly would recover only a few cents on the dollar...
...that seven years of Harvard's poetic output was carefully examined in compiling the volume, in order to assure a just representation of the best work. On the contrary, I believe I represent Harvard opinion when I say that not only do the puerile mouthings of the "Eight More" fail to typify the University; but that poems which do far more justice to our literary standards have been left out as well...
...lived, were harried, saw all prospects fail...
...States may be judged upon while having no voice in that judgment. When the value of the Hague Court has been proved by its increasing work, when every month adds to its growing dignity and power, the United States cannot with wisdom continue in its present anomalous position, nor fail, without rank inconsistency to endorse the best agent yet devised by humanity for the peaceful settlement of international disputes...
...true that the recent case, at a western college, of a student who was ridden on a rail, tarred and feathered because he cheered for the opposites team, shows that individuality is not yet regarded wholly as a virtue. But the better fashion, now for those who fail to conform, is to let them completely alone. The old English practice of sending a man to Coventry worked better than hazing: the latter only made for sullenness and stubborn reaction, while the former at least encouraged thought and reasoning self-correction. If the horse that has been led to the water...