Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accidents (not to be confused with the far more impressive averages of the Crime Wave), it is safe to say that very few were ever Harvard men. Four years of struggle spent in crossing and recrossing the "Square" and the "Avenue" have reaped their reward. However the University may succeed in educating along other lines, it is certain that in the art of traffic-dodging, the training given is supreme. Anyone emerging from Cambridge alive, with or without parchment letters after his name, is innured to any vehicular terrors that Broadway or Fifth Avenue may have to offer...
...does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must do so if he is to succeed in his chosen field. Examples to strengthen this argument are unnecessary, surely. Not that "the man on the street" ought to be able to distinguish at first hearing, the difference in sound and meaning of "Epithalamium" and "Epipsychidion"; but that, if only for his own good, he should respect...
...excuse of poverty--when the request is for only a dollar--cannot be taken seriously. If the drive is to succeed, the slogan must be observed to the letter...
...this country feel toward Belgium, but also as a memorial to those Americans who gave their lives in the World War". He stressed the importance of the fact that Harvard, through its prominence among the colleges and schools of the country, will greatly determine whether the undertaking will succeed or not, since other institutions will follow, at least in part, whatever example is set here...
...Tuchaus, or provincial governors, which, by arousing rivalry, is held largely responsible for the present struggle. Realizing apparently the ill-favor into which the mercenary private armies have fallen among the Chinese people, Wu is seeking the establishment of a truly peaceful and effective government. If his reforms succeed, China may yet set the more civilized nations an example in reconstruction...