Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legible as well as beautiful. To the instructor who has the misfortune to have some dozens of reports of these to correct, the typewriter if he can persuade his students to use it proves an unqualified blessing. And the instructor's gratitude for finding a read able production cannot fail to reach perhaps unconsciously to the advantage of the sagacious author. Altogether, there seems to be no inconsiderable basis for the well-known advertisement "Typewrite your themes and get higher grades...
With quantity production, Mr. Sabatini has quite naturally developed some degree of standardization. And while form some points of view this may be highly desirable, if adds little to the interest or individual perfection of his later novels. He cannot, it seems, fail to tell a good story, but the smoothness and polish of "Scaramouche" and "Captain Blood" are noticeably lacking in "Mistress Wilding". It is true that the hesitation with which the story begins hesitation, that is in point of style rather than in action--gradually wears off as the author warms to his work; but at first...
...have heard of this movement on the part of the undergraduates to bring radical speakers to the Harvard Union. I approve of it heartily, it is a most commendable sign of the awakening of liberal thought that must come in America. But I fail utterly to understand why it should be necessary. This attitude of the authorities in laying down an intellectual quarantine, seems to me childish, simply, childish...
While the President of the Phillips Brooks House Association expresses in his report the hope and expectation of a "sudden great expansion, in interest and in work done", the rest of the University is probably less sanguine in its outlook. It may even fail to agree that the Brooks House does not enjoy "its due importance and prestige among the undergraduates". After all, the Brooks House must inevitably be considered a thing apart. In no way does it qualify, nor can it be compared with other undergraduate activities...
...Britannic Majesty would formally open the BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION at Wembley. For the first time, in English history, the actual voice of the monarch will be broadcast and heard simultaneously in thousands of homes in every part of the Empire. Carried by undersea cables when the air waves fail, along the All-British cable route across Canada to New Zealand and Australia, thence to India and South Africa and back to Wembley, his voice will encircle the world in five minutes...