Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be hanged by the State of Connecticut. Mr. Chapman refused the commutation and denounced it as an abuse of clemency power. His lawyers will seek in the courts to establish his right to finish his 25-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary from which he escaped. If they succeed, his hanging will have to wait...
...Coolidge named John H. Walsh of New Orleans to the Shipping Board to succeed Commissioner Frederic I. Thompson, who recently resigned to fight the Administration's shipping policies (see SHIPPING...
...Crimson Freshmen succeed in downing the invaders, they will have succeeded in making their season partially successful. To date the 1929 booters booters have triumphed only over St. Georges. They have lost to Tabor, Andover, Springfield, and Worcester...
This gentlemanly argument was really not concerned with the proper disposition of time to achieve a given end. These two educations are aiming at different results and, properly enough, approve different methods. A four year college course intends to develop the student's cultural background. It may succeed only to a deplorably small extent, but that is the intention behind it, and its eminently valid excuse for existence. On the other hand, the type of education which Dean Hawkes champions concerns itself more immediately with a profession. On the ground that an attorney or business man must be fairly well...
...Lampoon should ever succeed in its campaign against the attendance of Freshmen at Boston debutantes' parties there is no knowing the ends to which hostesses may be reduced. Even though the Lampoon should fail, which is quite incredible, the hostesses seem to be drifting into difficulties. It is expected that the time is near at hand when they may institute a paging system. Then we may expect to hear in the halls of Westmorley, Claverly, and Randolph and in the lounges of clubs, pages shouting as they make the rounds. "Two sober young gentlemen for a dinner at the Somerset...