Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the columns and columns printed about the football situation at Cambridge, the newspaper reader is fairly safe in assuming that Harvard will either have a new head coach or not have one; that Mr. Fisher will either return or fail to; that Maj, Daly is not coming as head coach but will be merely the head coach of the backfield; that Harvard is (1) satisfied; (2) unsatisfied, or (3) dissatisfied with Mr. Fisher; that Messrs. Leary, Crowley and the immortal Mahan will or will not be among those present and accounted for, and that the sun will or will...
Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and a hundred others whose names have made history. Students of history will find the Diary a mine of information; the ordinary reader cannot fail to be engrossed by the absorbing account of life as it was during the late Georgian period...
...marks the decline of the tradition of gregarious leisureliness, it may not pass without creating a compensating store of new tradition. Such a structure, honored in the past and haloed in the present, cannot fail to found a legendary cycle. Ghosts may creak its boards, vague shapes may flit from rafter to rafter, the vast silence of its dimness will overawe the intruder. The spirit of good cheer is abandoning its Bacchic board, but the void may yet be filled by the angel of venerability and contemplation which hovers about the acquiescent majesty of deserted grandeur...
...satisfactory results", he said, "which we have achieved in the few days during which we have had our transmitter working have completely dispelled the fears which we entertained when we first decided to construct our station on top of the Stadium. Although we thought that the location could not fail to be infinitely better than that of last year in Westmorley Hall, we were very much afraid that the steel and cement construction of the Stadium might have some bad effects on its efficiency...
...visitor from Europe cannot fail to be amazed at two features in the American college system: first, its extreme newness and tremendously rapid growth; and second, its accessibility, at any rate as compared with England, to the sons and daughters of the mass of the people...