Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strata of the continental fault...
...newspaper correspondent makes an error which gets published, he usually receives a thoroughgoing reprimand in private from his chief. Should he then exert himself to make amends, he is usually patted on the back and told he is "good." But, again, this is done privately. Sometimes, however, the initial fault is so grievous that the correspondent's employers feel obliged to seize the first opportunity to pat the erring one publicly, so that all may know his professional family is still proud...
...full clutch of circumstance." Apparently he is groping after a line from William Ernest Henley, whom, however, he has evidently not read. I recommend him to study Pope's famous line about a little knowledge. Once more, he uses the term "Yanks," and this in a letter of fault-finding as to style of writing I The exhibition of general ignorance and boorishness in Mr. Dowse's unprovoked affront makes it clear that he himself has certainly not yet learned how to read or to write. The admirably condensed style of TIME is lost upon him. He picks...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...
...present arrangement of the academic year in Harvard University does undoubtedly place a great deal of emphasis upon examinations. This has been one of the periodic criticisms brought against our educational system, and if this is a fault it is to be feared that the new scheme will do little, if anything, to eliminate it. Independent reading in the future is to receive greater encouragement, but the very fact that it is independent wil make it more imperative that it be very carefully examined at the end of the reading period. A professor in charge of a course should, therefore...