Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not divulge the source of citations. And in most cases it has in its own possession only a general complaint. On these bases it prescribes extra rhetorical training. If the Committee does not know the particular fault of the student, the work is entirely at random. If it does, the work is more to the point, but somewhat out of its proper setting in the student's mind. In no case does he know, except by conjecture, on what occasion, how, and in the opinion of what instructor, he committed his mistakes...
...understand this at all." We do not understand it either. The police have good reason to complain. But better days may come, corruption may breed incoruption and Brockton clear this blot from its shield. In the meantime the Blimp must do its best to correct its fault by a real, clean, good number...
...attempt to purchase the cinema rights to the Puccini music (although it is said $150,000 was offered), a complete special score was obtained which approximated the classic melodies. Everything then was done to make the picture memorable. It turned out a trifle-tiresome. The story was at fault. For picture purposes the little consumptive girl and the shabby but sincere gayeties of the Paris Latin Quarter seemed insufficient. La Boheme is a much better picture than most, but it does not measure up to its great promises...
Robert Todd Lincoln was born in Springfield, Ill., in 1843, in the little white house with green blinds where his ex-Congressman father had settled down to practice law. He was named for his Kentucky-banker grandfather, Robert Todd. He took after his impetuous, affectionate fault-finding mother. He attended the Illinois Industrial School at Urbana (later the University of Illinois) and was sent east to Phillips Exeter Academy. He entered Harvard Law School but left to become a captain on General Grant's staff. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox, whence he returned...
...Hill. This sort of thing is, next to translating, one of the best possible fields for literary experimenting, largely because nothing, except translating, is more difficult to do well. That the efforts of the Advocate's contributors are passable, is high praise. Their common failing is less their individual fault than that of the readers of nowadays...