Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed to active duty for a course of instruction at the Naval Supply Corps School, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, at various intervals commencing July 1, 1942. Those student officers successfully completing the course will then be further assigned to duty wherever ordered. Those who fail will be discharged. Preliminary applications for men qualified to apply for this training may be obtained from Professor Casner at University Hall 20 on Friday, January 23 from 2 to 5 o'clock. No appointment is necessary. The preliminary application blanks will be given only to men qualified as follows...
...recent philosophers' conference at the University of Wisconsin--"We need more guts than philosophy." They must work hard and long and unremittingly to put this generation's ideas on record. If they and we value America as much as the men now fighting the war, they will not fail...
...Frank Knox this week: "It is unthinkable and intolerable for the United States to regard the attack on the Filipinos as any other than an attack upon ourselves. . . . Until they are again free, the obligation upon us to re-establish their freedom is one which no honorable nation would fail to fulfill...
...battlefield of World War II has been more often contested than the 100-mile arc that fans north of Changsha, mid-China communications junction. Three times in three years the Japanese have slashed their way down from the Yangtze to fail almost at the gates of the city's smoke-stained shell...
...their time more profitably checking simpler computations, learning how to trace and correct their errors, 3) they need to learn the principle of "approximation": i.e., that perfect accuracy in any measurement is an unattainable ideal. Heaviest charge modern teachers lay against traditional math teaching is that its artificial exercises fail to teach pupils how to solve practical problems...