Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long has there been theoretical speculation on what would be the liability of American Express Co. stockholders should their company fail, for unlike almost all U. S. corporations, American Express was never incorporated, being a voluntary association (joint-stock company) formed in 1850. Chances of American Express failing have, however, become increasingly slim. In March its domestic express business was transferred to an agency controlled by the railways. In July, Chase National Bank and Chase Securities Co. secured practically all American Express stock...
...reminds me of an antimire* talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty if I let the threat of any Senator dictate the selection...
...were being taken only by those with a good foundation in the Fine Arts. But the course is filled to overflowing every year with an ever increasing enrolment, while Fine Arts instructors themselves sit back and admit that the situation sadly needs remedying. A majority of students fail to get any real artistic appreciation out of their frenzied memorizing of slides, it is generally conceded and yet it is the assumption when they voluntarily enter the course that they earnestly desire to assimilate some knowledge of a subject which is likely to play so important a part in their leisure...
Undoubtedly many clubs will find that the large minimum charge required for board in the Houses will make it impossible to serve meals in the clubhouses. In many cases this can hardly fail to result in the eventual dissolution of the clubs so affected. It is, however, well known that many of the clubs have had pretty hard sledding even under past conditions and that even more have been founded purely as a means of mitigating the unpleasantness of eating around. If the atmosphere in the Houses approximates even to a limited degree the attractiveness hoped for by its well...
...announcement of the new plans of the International Council cannot fail to be of interest to those who are concerned with the task of giving the foreign students of the University a pleasant introduction to Harvard life. In the two years of its existence the Council has striven to offer those men opportunities for a social intercourse which they might otherwise find difficult to get in their new environment. In this capacity it has done much to break down the feeling of isolation and strangeness with which the foreign student is confronted...