Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard completely free from financial worries. More important than this, they will serve notice to the country that the College is actively and aggressively interested in attracting the cream of preparatory school graduates. Inaugurated with the proper publicity, an experiment as novel to American education as this one cannot fail to force Harvard upon the attention of preparatory schools all over the country and to hold out a valuable prize as a lure to prospective Freshmen...
...conspiracy, the papers might at least have the grace to exercise some of the "fair play" about which they set up such a lusty howl. Fortunately, the evidence is so incontrovertible that it does not need editorial elucidation; no one with the energy to look through it can fail to see the justice of the government's action. Even more damning than the actual evidence are the efforts which the air companies made to delude the public and destroy confidence in Mr. Roosevelt. It was a peculiarly underhanded trick, and is in line with the tactics used...
...Widener authorities, before granting the permit, never fail to deliver a long and tiresome address to the applicant on the great nuisance of tolerating undergraduates in the stacks at all. The general theme is that every additional person in there is another source of disorder, that library stacks were never intended to be open to any but "trained" men, such as faculty and graduate students, that lights are always being left on and that books are wrongly shelved. The tirade generally ends with the stupidly irrelevant observation that similar privileges in the British Museum or the Bibliotheque Nationale would...
...decline in pantomime. Pretty, sentimental, and equipped with an expressive set of gestures, her voice remains the weakest part of her repertoire of talents. Consequently she suffers from the inertia of motion picture directors who go the path of least resistance, rely largely on dialogue and consistently fail to develop the vast scope of the camera. The result is a decline in pictorial beauty, dramatic sweep, and imaginative appeal. "Carolina" is more of a step towards pictorial technique than most of the shows today but the undeveloped possibilities of changing scene, mass action, and human emotion undisturbed by nasal utterances...
...will begin by saying that I regard the Norfolk prison as an admirable prospect. It is the one creditable page in the history of prison administration in Massachusetts, and should not be allowed to fail by reason either or critical comment on the part of interested or uninformed people, or, in order to meet the conveniences of the situation, by making unwise use of its facilities and by unwise use I mean mixing unfit men with the trustworthy men who are found there, in a way that would bring about disorders and apparent failure of the system...