Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knowledge must be placed in control of these corporations in order to steer them safely through the mazes of the law. The constantly increasing number of patents, and the questions raised by the development of electric heating and lighting, have opened new fields for the lawyer. In order to succeed in these branches of the law, a lawyer must be familiar with science. General education is very necessary, and the mere study of old books is not enough, for new laws are constantly being formed out of custom, and a bird's eye view of all knowledge is of great...
...Coolidge, Harvard '83, now news editor of the Springfield Republican, will succeed Mr. Cushing as private secretary of Representative Henry Cabot Lodge...
...experiment failed. Many college graduates have been found wanting, when tested, in those qualities which make the successful newspaper man. An early battle with the world often brings out in a young man that degree of "push," quick judgment and self-reliance which make him more likely to succeed as a reporter than one who has spent all his life in the study of books...
...believe that a college-educated man, if the education does not spoil him as it does a great many men-if, with his education, he can get down to every-day practical things-will succeed in journalism. Education is certainly a good thing; but education that keeps a man in the clouds all the time will not do for the hurly-burly of daily newspaper work...
...members uniforms, and a training table if they so desire. The nine will have its own captain and manager, and games will be arranged for it. It will also be a part of their work to play against the University nine. The management hope to see the plan succeed and unless it does will abandon...