Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...search for everlasting peace, we but let lead, and follow humbly but dauntlessly the 'Kindly Light' of divine inspiration to all human brotherhood, gleaming like a star in the heavens, from the most beautiful hymn ever written, God will not let us fail...
...present opus concerns their progeny-and the virtues of the fathers are visited upon their sons. Athletes who never fail to win the game in the ninth inning, jolly-good-fellows, fond of an honest roughhouse, chivalrous to the weaker sex, lovers of God's outdoors, their simple lives are a constant succession of triumphs over scheming bullies at a rival military academy, bears, wildcats, inertia and German plotters who attempt to purloin an important dye formula from an old friend of the Rover family. From the time when an aeroplane (not driven by a Rover or there would...
...college, but who under the old requirement were able barely to "get by" as Freshmen and to make up their shortcomings later. But as a matter of fact, one-half of the men who now receive the minimum of two C's and a D the first year, fail before the middle of the succeeding year, and might better have been dropped at once; while most of the others, under the necessity of a higher standard, could probably begin their improvement just as well in their Freshman year; instead of delaying until they are forced to it as Sophomores...
...Next Door is all about a ranchman's beautiful daughter who deserts the range for Northampton and a higher education. Her father follows her footsteps four years later and together they attempted to scale the heights of Park Avenue society. For several reels they fail badly. The daughter-of-the-range manages a runaway rescue of a prominent debutante who is more potent in the ballroom than she is on a horse. Meanwhile the cultured cowgirl has roused romance in the breast of the youth next door. A"nd so it goes. The best of the acting is done...
...Baker Eddy, when she said, ' The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.' While those identified with The Christian Science Monitor are not indifferent to its success, I can say?to once again quote Mrs. Eddy ?that they ' would much rather fail of success than attain it by reproachable means.' (Miscellaneous Writings...