Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unquestionablyit is the orderly chronicling of events that underlies al history. But interwoven must be color and life or the events will lose their relative importance or fail to stand out at all. This side the modern historians neglect or ignore. The successors to Parkman or Prescott are-turning their attention to other fields. What comes in to fill the gap is historical fiction. An inspired novelist like Scott, building a "casing of romance upon a core of realism", as Brander Mathews remarked, with a historian's mind for detail, and the creative imagination of an artist; should be prescribed...
...literature, facts before ideas, classifications before generalizations"? A French professor who spent some time in Yale is quoted in the New York Herald as believing that it is. Facts are the basis of knowledge, but they are only the basis, and it is this latter truth which American students fail...
...products is doomed to failure for purely psychological reasons. A property medicine to be successful, must possess two prime attributes, first, it must have a disagreeable taste or odor and, second, it must show immediate physiological results. The common yeast vitamine tablets and similar patent medicines must of necessity fail in these attributes, unless drugs are added, because they are tasteless and because we all have an abundance of vitamines in our daily diets...
...enemy of all forms of democracy, and the fact applies equally well to industrial democracy. As long as the workers refuse to see the point of view of their employers, and the employers refuse to countenance anything that the employees say, any attempt to establish real democracy must fail...
...time until the whole problem is solved," said Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Education, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. "The public is at the mercy of the coal operators primarily and of the miners secondarily. If they fail to agree the public is practically helpless until they do agree and when they finally do agree the cost of their long disagreement is imposed upon the public in the way of increased prices...