Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps Cathleen, Marchioness of Queensberry, had not heard the warning of Emile Fuchs (see above) that she ought to have at least a baronet* in her family tree to succeed as an artist in the U. S. She is only the daughter of a Scotch commoner, famed Anglo-U. S. Portraitist Harrington Mann...
...other colleges in the country. It is designed to give students more time for personal investigation and research as well as more time to prepare for examinations. The plan is used in English universities, but there it is a product or evolution, and whether or not it will succeed when superimposed on an educational system which has previously been somewhat paternalistic must be shown by experiment...
...modern university emphasizes analysis at the expense of synthesis, that we acquire information but no way of life, that in the maze of contradictory facts and theories which we encounter at this time we are offered no means of giving unity to chaos. The American university will not truly succeed in producing educated men until it quite frankly and without pedantry sets out to teach them "to see life clearly and to see it whole". --The Princetonian...
...Pani is also a shrewd political chameleon. He has served under more Presidents than any other Mexican adjusting, himself to the political hue of each, but retaining his reputation as an able administrator. Therefore no surprise was felt last week when it was announced that he would succeed Alfonso Reyes as Mexican Ambassador at Paris, and would be succeeded by Montes de Oca at the Finance Ministry. The surprise came when Señor Pani was reported to have patched up again his longstanding differences with President Calles and withdrawn his resignation, slipping back into the post of Finance Minister...
...President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works, 70, but called a "successful old business man," said, drily: "Age makes no difference. If a young man has ability and foresight, he will succeed. So will an old man. Age itself is only an incident...