Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungary religion is identified with the Crown of St. Stephen. The Habsburg family is the only one that can succeed to the Hungarian throne in the eyes of a very great majority of Magyars. Dr. Benes, it is argued, should not forget that he has outraged both the religious and royalist feelings of his neighbors many times in the stand which he and his associates took against the attempts of the late Emperor Karl to regain the throne of Hungary...
What if a man strive for the good that is enduring but does not succeed? What if his efforts are frustrated by his own mistakes or by circumstances beyond his control? St. Paul does not speak of this. He says that if any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. The man of whom he says this is one who has done a perishable work. How about him who seeks to build solidly but falls? The work that he has not done is left undone...
...convinced that some particular effort, adventure or plan of his has failed. The difference is vital. The man who runs his head repeatedly into the same stone wall has the kind of head least likely to be affected by the process. He shows perseverance, but not determination to succeed. Wisdom consists in changing the method as the result of experience while retaining the object; or to state the same thing in a larger way, if the purpose of a man in life is to do something of real value, and after sufficient trial he becomes convinced that his abilities...
...divided his days between North Dakota and Oklahoma, has taught in the schools of both states. In 1920 he was defeated for state superintendent of public instruction in Oklahoma, Later he was active in the political affairs of the League and a few weeks ago he was appointed to succeed President. J. B. Eskeridge of Oklahoma A. and M., who was deposed, Wilson's appointment was approved by the state board of agriculture, which the governor had reorganized. But the students and citizens of Stillwater rebelled. They appealed to the governor. As a result, Wilson appeared on June...
...hard to say where the future will lead. France and England may succeed in finding some formula which will secure a sensible solution of the reparations snarl while saving the faces of Poincare and Cuno. Or France may elect to break up the remnants of the Entente and pursue what she feels is the only possible policy in the Ruhr. It is even within the realm of possibility that in the end France and Germany should come into closer union than ever before in an industrial entente based on coal and iron...