Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless, even with the desired pledges, the plan would not thereby become an assured success. Men might fail to redeem promises lightly made. On this account, the pledges should be signed with something like due deliberation. Moreover, the running of the hall without detrimental loss is still only a scheme on paper. The reasonable price at which it is proposed to offer viands is good fodder for skeptics who cannot be categorically contradicted. Yet, the University has studied this aspect of the problem as well as the others and is to a certain extent, plighting its faith with the student...
...Harvard Superiority in fail minor sports for the past two years is offset by this year's 12 to 7 defeat in football. In 1926 the Crimson and Blue elevens fought up and down the Stadium to a scoreless tie, but in the Bowl last fall two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell spelled downfall for the Harvard team...
Blanks should be filled out as of June, 1927, omitting, of course Seniors who will not be members of organizations next fall. In cases where men listed this spring fail to return to college next fall, the editors will remove their names from the lists next fall, at the request of their organization...
...Whereas bankers, statesmen and other personages often fail of audiences [with Mussolini] . . . young girl visitors from the United States and England are almost certain to be ushered quickly to the Duce's presence...
...slit his wife's throat? Follow the dream and find out. Many a Freudian symbol will probably elude the spectator while a scrupulously scientific fantasy of the less definitely conscious mind is revealed on the screen. But the tense climax, the amazing photography cannot escape notice or fail of effect. When the psychoanalyst explains to the patient the cause of his wanting to knife his wife, the fixation is removed, her life saved. Rarely has science so artfully impregnated the fantastic...