Word: failed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...
...last four minutes of play, the Harvard football team found itself. Although many followers are disappointed in the final score, none fail to hall Saturday's achievement as one of the pluckiest exhibitions ever seen in the history of college football. A team which can fight like that does not know when it is defeated...
...opening crew races of the fail regatta which were scheduled to take place yesterday were called off on account of the high wind. One or two of them were started, but the wind made conditions so erratic that no results were counted...
...operation is the byword of a successful business venture; without it the best of projects will fail. So it is with success in football. An enthusiastic cheering section, well drilled in their songs and cheers, is of tremendous value to a team; indifference in the stands leads to defeat on the field. Our co-operation this year has been most lamentable. Ignorance of the songs and cheers, together with that all-too-evident Harvard indifference, is the foundation of our early-season faults. Thursday is the night to learn the songs and cheers. The Union must be crowded...
...years ago a Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our Allies can hardly restrain the accusing finger at our "peculiar American practice of lynching." When it was considered that President Wilson might intervene in Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching...