Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of our large cities, he speaks of the commuter who "spends his half hour not in healthy exercise but in hurtling through the bowels of the earth in a little hell of ugliness and stuffiness and racket and overcrowding". Only in a few scattered phrases does he succeed in such apt description, while more nauseating metaphors such as "the toothaches and pimples of our spiritual experiences" abound...
...Boston National League team will succeed Boston University as Harvard's opponent in a clash at Braves Field at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Braves will put their regular lineup on the field with Edwards, according to information received last night, taking the pitching assignment. The Crimson nine will be the same that faced B. U. with one change. Cutts or Booth will do mound duty...
...undergraduates as a whole let the world, including such newspapers and magazines, alone; why should those papers evince such a morbid interest in them? Evidently, however, their editors find that the propaganda is welcomed by a certain class of readers; if they continue their researches indefinitely, they should finally succeed in creating a mass of myths and legends concerning the College Boy--the discussion of the Younger Generations having at last become stale. Meanwhile the unwitting object of all this attention goes unconcerned upon...
...Huberman as the poet looks his part, and makes it sufficiently wistful, and Miss Fay Goeil plays the Girl with taste and conviction. The play, written some years ago for the English 47 Workshop, is by Eugene Fillot. Its moral is perhaps a little obvious, but it does succeed in fixing one's attention and curiosity upon the revelation awaited from the lips of the Satisfied...
...opinion the challenger is sure to come from his side of the elimination tournament which is being run by promoter Tex Rickard. Dempsey is the leading contender on the other side, but the Boston boxer believes that the former champion will not succeed in his "comeback" attempt...