Word: succeeded
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...looks as if he may succeed. As of last week, polls preceding the June 2 vote showed about 60% of citizens favoring Proposition 227, the "English for Children" initiative, despite a last-minute media blitz by opponents. "Politicians are ineffective on ethnic issues," Unz says, explaining his surprising clout. "If I didn't do something about bilingual education, no one else would...
...could The Waste Land--and the sad poems, almost as peculiar, that followed it (from The Hollow Men to Little Gidding)--succeed to such an extent that by 1956 the University of Minnesota needed to stage his lecture there in a basketball arena? The astonishing growth of literacy between 1910 and 1940 certainly helps to explain the rise of an audience for modernist writing. But it was an audience chiefly of fiction readers. Fiction had claimed "real life," and in 1910 poetry was subsisting, for the most part, on vague appeals to nature and to God. Though from...
...jewels students collect asundergraduates--be they top grades or leadershippositions--will not just adorn their resumes. Manystudents who succeed in the recruiting processlater compete for other prized offers, this timefrom top business schools...
When she was chosen to succeed Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan in June 1959, Mary I. Bunting-Smith conceded that, with just one visit to the Cambridge campus under her belt, she certainly had "a lot to learn about Radcliffe...
Weld littered his eight rules with stories of his life, telling students that these principles had helped him to succeed...