Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here I am, frankly before you, plump in the middle of heaven, to preach my gospel, and perfectly sure that such paragons of tolerance won't fail to take at least one look at the Other side, the Wrong side, the Bad Side, the False side, which up to now you have, in narrow bigotry, never touched...
English A is one of the most maligned courses in the university. Being compulsory for all who fail to attain a grade of 75% in the English entrance examinations, it has lost none of the stigma attached to any course vitiated by an aura of compulsion. Such a course by no means presents a simple problem to its instructors, for students expecting to be bored by the repetition of grammatical rules bring to the course no interests of their own. In view of these facts, it might be well in justice to English A and its instructors to reconsider...
Wanting neither intellectual brilliance nor a thorough grasp of their subject, many lecturers at Harvard fail completely either to inspire their audience or even to arouse their interest. Handicapped by faulty organization of material or awkwardness and ineptitude in speaking, these men, though potentially fine lecturers, give far less than they ought as a result of superficial and presumably remediable deficiencies...
...When it comes to individual "swing" men, why did you fail to mention other idols of the modern musician, such as the Dorsey Brothers, "Miff" Mole, "Red" Nichols, Vic Burton (drums), "Saxey" Mansfield (tenor sax), Joe Venuti (violin), Irving Brodsky (piano) and Dick McDonough (guitar...
...reading over President Conant's report, no one could fail to be impressed by the number and variety of ideas put forth and carried through in the first years of his administration. National Scholarships, Roving Professorships, Tercentenary Funds, Scholarships for Graduate Schools, the remodelling of the Dental School, the Graduate School for Public Administration, and the Athletic Endowment program pass in dazzling succession through our minds. All these plans of change and addition shine with a resplendent virtue; all are desirable, even necessary, reforms. But they all likewise have one thing in common: they require money, and more money...