Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tales of the regimentation in the Chemistry department concerns the mechanism for seeing that desks are left clean. The students are informed with great emphasis that they must wash their desks after they have finished work. But this information is not all. They are also told that if they fail to wash a desk, a note reminding them of that fact will be slipped into their desks by an assistant. A duplicate note will be sent the office, whence will emanate toward the presumably terrified offender a letter, couched in solemn, hortatory tones. This entire process constitutes a "first warning...
...young, then fail, it will be our fault, but we should at least be given a chance to feel our way. We cannot in this respect fall down more miserably than have our elders. Henry V. Poor...
...occasion for the lecture is the Fail Ladies Night of Engineering Societies of Boston in joint session with the New England Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society, through the courtesy of the Harvard Engineering School. The lecture will be open to all undergraduates...
...your war risk insurance. If we have inflation and wallpaper money becomes the currency of the land that $10,000 policy of yours will buy about $4,000 worth of stuff. One disabled veteran said to me the other day: 'Don't let the Legion fail to oppose Inflation. For God's sake let us hold on to what little we're getting...
...regard Boston journals as witless panders to the rabble. In its blissful if irritating myopia, youth can scarcely appreciate the ripe sagacity which directs the composition of news and editorials in the great world. But here the adolescent is appealed to in familiar terms. Only the purposeful blind can fail to detect in this piece that genteel sense of humor, that same mellow perspective which graced the manipulation of Captain Armstrong's publicity...