Word: failings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those who never fail at all are in a non-existent fairyland. We all fail. But for millions of people great religion has brought victory after moral failure...
...blather, with interpolations on foreign and domestic affairs. Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack White is 44, has been hoofing, gagging, minstreling, cabareting since 1911. More than anything else in life he loves the New York Giants. During the season, when the Giants fail to defeat their opponents, White posts a sign in his Club: NO GAME TODAY...
...fatigue," the release reads, "that causes a driver to doze for a moment, or, through inattention, fail to note a vehicle that has come to a stop just ahead in the same laue of travel. But it is speed, often increasing under these circumstances, that results in the fatal crash...
...often in a university as replete with scholarships and prizes as is Harvard, rare opportunities for study abroad, such as the Henry Fellowships, are overlooked by eligible undergraduates. There can be but two explanations for this: either students fail to realize that special applications are due before an announced deadline, or else they refuse to bother with them on the assumption that a year at Oxford or Cambridge is wasted time compared to a year's experience in business or profession here. Both of these are incorrect from some viewpoints, and the latter one is particularly unfounded. The Henry Fellowships...
...view the fame and importance of the University in an impersonal light, attributing them to the work of a highly paid personnel. They do not realize that Harvard has achieved its present position through the work and cooperation of every member of the University, students and officers alike; they fail to see that for the next four years the progress of the College will be to some extent dependent on them...