Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four hour day. It would be more worthwhile instead to seek why the difficulties exist. Why is it that sometimes when one sees a certain word in a language course for a fleeting moment it sticks firmly in one mind, while others, curse them, are seen repeatedly and yet fail to stay...
...solved by removing a half million Jews from the Reich. If any one doubts that this is not the problem let him look to Poland, where the Poles are beginning to ask whether the great powers are going to assist Hitler by caring for his victims while they fail to provide an outlet for the surplus population of a nation that does not resort to such violence...
...Worst failing of New York's schools, reported Dr. Gulick and his fellows, is that they do a bad job of educating high-school youth. Almost all boys & girls today enter high school. Four-fifths do not go on to college. Still largely classical and college preparatory, however, high schools "fail to give boys and girls a scientific point of view and an understanding of the world," funk their job of making good citizens. High-school youth, said the report, is "hardboiled" about democracy and freedom "and inadequately prepared to do what is required to preserve either...
April arrived, and with it, war. The CRIMSON bugle-called to Harvard's future fighters with, "We go to war now for the freedom of the German people. Imperialism will fail before democracy without fall and inevitably...
...fourth period of the Yale game, the score was tied at 6-6 and it was snowing. This year in the fourth period the score was also deadlocked, 0-0, and it was raining. In both cases a threatening Yale team drove down the field, only to fail on an attemtped field goal. And a fighting Harvard eleven took the ball on its own 20-yard line and marched to a touchdown and the Big Three Title...