Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that of her two opponents...
...receive the famed Kelvin Gold Medal. I addressed the assemblage, saying in part: 'I hope you will not think me too visionary if I say that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space.' As all my auditors knew, I had already perfected such beam-projection for directive radio communication. Last fortnight I received a postoffice certificate for shortwave...
...glad to see that things are turning out as they should. The Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov's play offered at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre, constitutes a sufficient justification for that pioneer enterprise. For The Three Sisters is a great drama that could not possibly succeed in a Broadway house. It tells of the dry rot creeping upon a class of Russian society which, for years, has been privileged to do nothing- the petty military, the country landlord. Always the victims struggle to writhe free of the suffocating blankets of their own inertia-in this case...
...visitors forced the play from the start of hostilities, adopting rough, rushing tactics that kept the ball in Harvard territory during the first period and the greeter part of the second. Not until late in the first half did the University aggregation get under way, and succeed in holding the Orange and Black on more even terms...
...apparent that the nuclear group of 500 eaters, declared to be essential to the success of any Common dining hall by the Comptroller's Office, can be recruited from a roving force of 6000. The Harvard Union has demonstrated that a University Dining hall based on voluntary attendance can succeed in spite of cafeteria competition. The Union attracts only a portion of the nomad horde; the majority wanders, at large inadequately and irregularly food...