Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeply regret the breach in athletic relations and the loss of the thrill that came with every contest against Princeton, but even more keenly do I regret that the fault in the matter appears to have been chiefly Harvard...
...canvases. Mr. Sargent was careful not only in his artistic technique but also in mixing his oils. As painters always have done, he experimented sometimes with various unorthodox methods and pigments. He was very careful in working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly...
...finds the curtain to be practically an airplane map of Cambridge. There is Massachusetts Hall, there a quadrangle in the Georgian style. The campus of Tait is cloistered. There are ivy-covered towers, containing, by the way, college bells of familiar penetration. It were piddling to find fault because Agassiz Hall has alighted cheek-by-jowl with Holworthy, with no thought of what havoc such change would raise in the architectural scheme of Brattle Stret...
Right at the start, speakers began to find fault with present missionary and ministerial conditions. The most obvious and threatening obstacle to missionary success, they pointed out, is the effect of denominational rivalry upon the potentially Christian inhabitants of heathen countries. Said Canadian Dr. Richard Roberts: "The business of Christian missions is not to get people to call themselves Christians but to make friends." At this there was a murmur of approval from the students...
...Words of apology fail me for having sunk His Majesty's submarine N. 6. My subordinates are killed by my fault, but it is with pride that I inform you that the crew to a man have discharged their duties as sailors and with the utmost coolness until their dying moments...