Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the new coaches have introduced into Yale football any out-and-out commercial elements. From every standpoint, in fact, the new system seems to have achieved a reasonable degree of success, and after a year of operation its chances for permanent success seems bright. But if it should fail, Yale would do best to sell the Bowl as a curiosity and forget all about football. --Yale Daily News...
Referring to Upton Sinclair, why don't you state who brought the charge and who subsequently dropped it? Why do you fail to mention that you got the story out of Upton Sinclair's autobiography, and that you could not have got it anywhere if Upton Sinclair had not told it? I really think that 1 shall have to insist that you shall publish the paragraphs from which you took that story...
...this number bears some slight trace of that preciousness so carefully cultivated in certain Harvard circles of the 1920's. He makes the neat point that Mr. Eliot's flight to the Church has resemblances with Mr. Malcolm Cowley's flight to Communism; but on the whole his epigrams fail to hang together...
Your communicant wishes to take issue with an editorial published yesterday entitled, "Carping Clerics" when it infers that much "beneficial social legislation has been written on the law books of the country during the last decade." I fail to find a single piece of "social legislation" in the last decade which has counteracted the evils of the reign of Big Business. The position of the small and middle-sized business man and the laborer has been steadily declining during the past decade. Big Business received its final enshrinement in the temple when it went down to Washington last year...
...church which clings resolutely to a point of view so typically medieval. Indeed, the current experience in Russia proves conclusively that unless the church does perform a definitely progressive function in contemporary society, its continued existence is extremely precarious. When the bishops of one of the leading American sects fail to appreciate the moral fortitude which has characterized the attitude of the people during the last five tragic years, when they allow Hollywood and Reno to blind them to the beneficial social legislation which has been written on the law books of the country during the past decade, they...