Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clearly the President and Fellows have been seriously at fault. It is true that they, comprising the Corporation, acted technically within their right in neglecting Professor Baker and his branch of the English Department. But here was a matter affecting in a most profound way Harvard policy, and although the Board of Overseers is responsible for the acts of the Corporation and may be consulted by it at any time and may alter its actions, yet in this case not one inkling of Baker's struggle was ever allowed to reach the Overseers, the elected representatives of the alumni...
...heroine suffers with a somewhat inflamed past which seems to be no fault of her own. She dives into the Hudson River to rescue the hero and he takes her to sea on the Corsican. The moment after she has hammered the drunken and predatory captain on the head with an ivory tusk, the ship bursts into flames. Boilers explode...
...famous quarrel with Henley, his early friend and supporter, Mr. Steuart treats at length. It was not, as generally supposed, a sudden thing, but the result of a succession of minor episodes. And it was, it appears, largely the fault of Stevenson, whose hot rage would never forgive a fancied disloyalty. Henley himself never harbored resentment, in spite of his disparaging criticism of his former friend, often regarded as evidence of a vengeful nature...
Liberal. A revolt within the Liberal Party was incepted when Captain W. Wedgwood Benn, M. P. for Leith, wrote to a prominent Liberal newspaper: "I cannot acknowledge in any way, direct or indirect, Mr. Lloyd George as my leader in the House of Commons . . . The vital fault is want of trust. The people have no confidence, and rightly so, in Mr. Lloyd George...
...only cause for ever feeling stigma in defeat. Captain Greenough and his team mates, therefore, may look back on the game with no feeling of self-accusation in being unable to accomplish the impossible. They gave their utmost--even more--and it is not their fault that it was not enough. There is no dishonor in defeat at the hands of a superior opponent...