Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aids and conveniences thought out in the Dr. Park plan. It went further. The only regulation was "do what you will." But this platform unaccountably failed to attract a constituency. It has remained in darkness for a wheel's full circle. Yet the president of Wheaton College may succeed where the great laugher failed. He has the privilege of being able to confront teachers conclaves with his back to the club message. Rabelais could only address the intelligent few from behind a smoke screen of slapstick and in the language of a four-a-day fall...
...horse is mature at five years and lives five times that stretch, to 25 years. A man is mature at 18 and should live five times as long, until 90. All men might succeed in doing that if they lived hygienically and wore light clothing. (Gerald B. Webb of Colorado Springs, Colo...
...Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum. "Delighted," said Mr. Borglum, with heavy irony...
...Governor may succeed himself in Virginia. The Byrd regime ends in 1930. The Byrd influence will not end, however. In managing his State machine, Governor Byrd has the aid of his other younger brother, third of the famed "Tom, Dick and Harry" trio, Thomas Boiling Byrd, who is also in politics. He also has the aid, now, of elements which were unfavorable to him when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite...
...again talked about the U. S. home. "It vibrates through every hope of the future. . . . From the homes of America amust emanate that purity of inspiration only as a result of which we can succeed in self-government...