Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible contortion of keeping both ears to the ground and listening to notes to which their ears should be deaf. What is most needed in legislative halls and elsewhere is courage to withstand the sudden spasms which are created by groundless rumor or injudicious agitation. Candidates for office often fail to realize how much the people respect courage and common honesty...
...Senate there was not quite the same amount of hurry. The disposition of the Senators would not permit it. Most of them preferred to express themselves freely and fully, even if some legislation might fail for lack of time to consider...
...That in case the above demand fail of attainment, the Chinese Government should put up the signboard, "Englishmen and dogs not allowed," at various places of historical and scenic interest...
...serious and sustained effort is urgently needed to knit it together. Since November 11, 1918, the politicians and diplomats have tried to do the knitting and they have not been successful. I am not blaming them nor are the reasons for their failure relevant. The fact that they have failed in the important and vital thing. It is high time to bring to bear the influence of the spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all and a sporting chance for the underdog--as a World-Welder. I need not labour the point to caders of the Harvard CRIMSON that sportsmen...
...certain feeling of discouragement in such circumstances is not unnatural; it is most embittering to have a benevolent idea fail, and fail solely because the object of one's benevolence is too unworthy to appreciate what is being done for him. But at the same time, life would be tiresome without its setbacks. Instead of submitting to the fell clutch of circumstance, Sir Henry should call up his fighting spirit and try again. Generalities cannot be drawn from single cases...