Word: fails
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Everyone knows hundreds of normal young men who fail to enter Vale, Harvard or Princeton otherwise manage their lives and their careers successfully without being classed as imbeciles. The Duke's case is no more unusual or worthy of note in a reliable paper...
...enclosing his picture. He has removed his Bessie-the-sewing-machines-girl spectacles, and in the flesh the hair is carroty-red and the freckles are many. You will not fail to take note of the elegant pompadour: the hair stands straight...
...regard to the purpose of his book. Professor Saunders made the following statement: "In most lecture courses in general the students, especially Freshmen who are not accustomed to taking lecture notes, fail to get a great deal out of the period. We hope this new book will serve more or less as a group of lecture notes and will enable the student to understand the subject better...
...Chicago would not buy them. He blamed "reformers" and Chicago newspapers for the City's troubles. The city's newspapers long ago decided that the best way to get rid of the Mayor was to ignore him, have consistently done so through the present crisis. However they did not fail to print this message delivered last week by Mr. Strawn's committee of 76 and aimed directly at the Mayor...
...rivalled perhaps only by its collection of legal books and manuscripts. Scattered through Langdell Hall and Austin Hall, the portraits become familiar to the ever-changing body of students but are little known to outsiders, even those interested in artistic things. The casual visitor to the School, however, cannot fail to be impressed by the size of the collection and by the intrinsic merit and value of the individual items. There are many etchings and engravings, but the chief glory of the collection is the oil portraits, many of them the work of distinguished artists. Particularly notable are the pictures...