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Word: succeeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profit, the undergraduate undoubtedly feels that it would suit his stomach better for him to suffer the former. It was admitted that last year the account's of the House dining halls showed a profit; therefore it is too much to expect that the University can at least succeed in breaking even at the end of the present season without either raising the rates or, most dangerous, cheapening the quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR TALK | 10/15/1937 | See Source »

...music can arouse a person emotionally, then abstract renditions of light and shade can achieve the same effect. He says frankly that these are but visual experiments, yet, his reactions to Handel's music, for one, set on paper as the essence of great, soaring flames beneath Gothic arches, succeed in conveying some kind of emotional stimulus to the onlooker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 10/13/1937 | See Source »

...Went through the formality of electing New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, who had been nominated by A. B. A. delegates last January, president to succeed Minneapolis' Frederick Harold Stinchfield. Lawyer Vanderbilt, 49, is a liberal Republican who, in addition to an active practice, has taught Law at New York University Law School for 23 years, been Chairman of the Judicial Council of New Jersey for seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A. B. A. at Kansas City | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...realized that the mountain must go to Mohammed, and by that realization the Debating Council has taken a position in the forefront of undergraduate organizations today. For today in an age when students come to college primarily to study, more than ever before, no extra-curricular activity can succeed unless it has something material to offer the student. The student has little to offer the activity. If he cannot "play on the team", it is not worth his while to leave his books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING GOES TO THE PITCHER | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Robie and Bradley made no miskiekn, rare feat in any game, and covered half the field in taking the starch out of the Bruin forwards. Not until the closing minutes of the game did the visitors capitalize on Harvard's halfback weakness with a gang attack which alone could succeed in beating the Crimson's final defenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY TIES BRUINS IN SOCCER OPENER, 1-1 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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