Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...domineering man repulses others, while the dominating man attracts them. This is the sharp distinction so many fail to see when they talk of Mr. Morgan...
...overshadows any novel that may be written this year or another, precisely as a college lecture overshadows a country school spelling bee. Indeed it was delivered in substance during a series of lectures to an international group of students at Geneva. Whatever readers its rapid, crystalline, aphoristic pages fail to drive back to the best in U. S. literature, it will furnish with at least a vivid sequence of that literature's successive ideals...
American college youths have so long been accustomed to a paternalistic attitude on the part of the institutions that they might fail to realize the benefits accruing from the suggested period of research at their own will. In English universities, where the plan is now in use, it has been the product of gradual evolution, and the students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result...
...mentally alert he can sit through all his lectures with one eye on his watch, the other on the window whence come signs of spring, and his mind's eye visualizing a yacht on the blue or a shack in the clouds. Even the dullest of subjects will fail to induce sleep, for now it is the plunk-plunk of a banjo drifting over rippling waters or the splash of a perfect "watermelon" from a twenty foot spring board that imparts a faint glean of intelligence to the student's shining face. Even the most exacting of lecturers are pleased...
...Marquess of Salisbury: "A finger has been wagged in my direction. I fail to understand this movement. Was it admonitory...