Word: fails
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faults of the crew on the whole are that they fail to get around the water on the catch, keep poor time, are slow with their hands, and in starting their slides, are inclined to rush the last part of their recover, and do not pull their blades through at the same depth...
...whose writings must always have a peculiar interest to all who are familiar with his charming musical studies and sketches. A short article in "America in Early English Literature," by I. B. Choate, in which the author cites some of the "numberless references to the early colonists which cannot fail to arrest the attention of the reader of general literature, and which are of great value since they are the "unconscious expressions of the sentiment which prevailed in their day." The description of "Bryant's New England Home," by Henrietta S. Nalmer, too, though rather long and suggestive of padding...
...early part of the week, the candidates for the Mott Haven team have gone to work earnestly and with regularity. Although the spring meetings are far in the future and it will be a long pull until May, yet the men are training with a determination which cannot fail to develop some good athletes. All but five of last year's team are now attending college but the majority of the old men have not yet started to train, though the weight and hammer men are now practicing. The squad of walkers is unusually large and in fact larger than...
...experience in city government and is qualified to speak with authority on all subjects connected with it. What he has to say on Concentration of Responsibility in Municipal Government is certain to be worth hearing, and no man who is interested in the live questions of the day should fail to hear...
...certainly can be remedied. If the bell for Vespers could be rung in the same way the bell for morning prayers is, - a few taps a quarter of an hour before the service begins and a steady ringing for the five minutes immediately before the service, no one could fail to hear...