Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Cover-point keeps the ball away from in front of goal very effectively. He has but one fault, he occasionally plays to the grand stand and lets his man get too far away from...
...crew as a whole are very slow on the recover, and rush their slides badly. The work is not smooth enough and there is too much splashing. The principal fault, however, is that the men fail to use their stretchers...
...hours, when not even an assistant was in the laboratory. We do not expect that Dr. Brooks will grow rich from a suit, the cause of which is due to his son's carelessness, if to anything at all criminal, and not to any manner of means to the fault of Harvard professors...
...great fault in our schools lies in the teachers frequently taking for granted that a pupil has a satisfactory knowledge of a subject of which in truth he knows only the first rudiments. The teacher does not feel sufficiently called upon to become acquainted with the exact state of his pupil's knowledge. So it comes about that or promotion into a higher class, a boy is allowed to give up entirely some branch of study which is strictly relegated to the "elementary" departments. A study which suffers more than any other from this absurd neglect is geography. Because "reading...
...nightfall then Lee held the same ground; although both sides were exhausted. McClellan was too much disorganized to attack the next day, and accordingly he waited for reinforcements. But meanwhile Lee fell back across the Potomac. McClellan's fault was not failure to attack again, but to attack one day earlier, while one-third of Lee's forces were at Harper's Ferry...