Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major possibility remains, the Italian debt settlement. This will meet opposition in the Senate as bitter and perhaps more forceful than it met in the House. Attempts have been made to line up the Democrats against it, but until recently these attempts have not succeeded. A number of prominent Democrats, notably Messrs. Underwood, Glass and Bruce, have stood out against making a fight on this issue. The Administration has stood solidly behind the settlement, contending not only that it is the best that can be got, but the only way of insuring any money at all from Italy. A combination...
...group of Englishmen returning from a game of golf, and armed only with golf sticks, were unable to prevent the Maharaja's emissaries from murdering the merchant Bawla in cold blood on the open highway while he was riding with Mumtaz Begum; but the golfers did succeed in driving off the natives (armed with revolvers, knives and swords) before they could do more to the girl than slash her face, permanently disfiguring...
...into building up a better Harvard ball team. Also, there are about half the men down there that ought to be supporting the sport in a college of this size. Too many potential ball players are fooling around with crew and minor sports at which they can never succeed and others are spending the spring in doing nothing at all. Baseball players can be developed and all we ask for is a bunch of men who are willing to work and learn the game...
With all his eloquence he labored to bring the meeting around to indorse that compromise. At the eleventh hour he succeeded. Critics opined, however, that only by a miracle can the depleted "corporal's guard" of Liberals left to Leader George succeed in getting his scheme through Parliament...
...Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors?but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church to Britain...