Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, if such an air offensive failed to succeed, and succeed soon, she would have incurred the strategic disadvantage of greatly widening the path and increasing the scope for the Allied air forces which would become an increasing boomerang with every stage of the latter's growth. She would also immediately simplify the British naval blockade...
...Harvard Lampoon chose "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan as movie actress most unlikely to succeed. Said she in Hollywood, where she earns approximately $100,000 a year: "I wonder what those bozos think is success. ... I don't mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard. ... I met a Harvard man once, myself. It was a very sad evening...
...whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood basis for a legendary manhood. He gave the role his most sober and restrained performance to date. That he did not succeed entirely was partly the fault of the production, partly because the picture featured Mickey in a role so different from his usual ones that puzzled cinemaddicts did not know what bewildered them most-seeing Mickey Rooney as Thomas Alva Edison or the future Wizard of Menlo Park as ebullient Mickey...
James R. Stewart, who was recently appointed Superintendent of Caretakers to succeed General Charles R. Apted '03, has announced that from now on Harvard's crime-detecting operatives will report to Connolly for orders. Henceforth the new chief is to have the title of "Captain," a rank he has enjoyed de facte lot a number of years...
Other changes include the appointment of John J. Witherspoon '37 to succeed Stahley as head coach of lacrosse and Richard W. Snibbe to take Witherspoon's place as Freshman lacrosse coach...