Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minimum of work. It is an actual fact that throughout my entire four years I read no more, in the aggregate, than fifty small pages of large type, and that I skipped eighty per cent of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude! Harvard '21, Providence, R. I. --"Notes and Queries," American Mercury...
...worthless. But the cleaning up process, the exclusion of weak, newly founded enterprises seems to be nearly finished. The export surplus in December together with the reawakening of the international money market is one of the best signs of a slowly recovering economic situation. Even if this recovery should fail to become a lasting...
...realization of a creative power, sufficient to overcome the mediocrity or contemporary art. "Man is a thinking being"--college cramp is the coercive restraint of university skepticism upon the creative mind. Does he weather it he is all the better able to accomplish his end--does he fail, he would probably fail anyway. And merely another victim is offered to the gods of learning--or a bonding house on Wall Street...
...League is in theory a remarkable and entirely admirable structure. Unfortunately for the ultimate success of the League its work and accomplishments so far fail to justify optimism or to guarantee Asiatic nations the justice they desire...
Only two falls occurred in the Freshman matches, Garcelon of Tufts threw Lieberman in the 125-pound class, and Lefrak of the Crimson first-year men won by a fail over Pollis, his opponent...