Word: success
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...French have advanced, while below, in some obscure corner, it is asserted that the Germans have made no appreciable gain. A glance at the map, however, shows the importance of these events to be just the reverse. In editorials and in the presentation of all news, the glory and success of our arms is almost without exception maintained. The public is fed up on the rosy aspect of events, no matter what the truth of the situation...
...Great success has attended the canvass in Cambridge for books to be sent to war libraries in camps at home and in France, more than 2,200, volumes having been received by the branch collection return in the Widener Library, and about 3,000 at the Cambridge Public Library. The books were of all sorts, but fiction predominated...
...opportunity. It is scarcely conceivable that Germany will be guided by any scruples concerning the rights of the small Slavic peoples. On the contrary, the traditional imperial policy indicates the desirability and need of striking while the iron is hot, and devoting all energy to a complete success in the Eastern theatre of war. Moreover, from a military point of view, the softness of the ground and the great strength of the Allied lines portend little success for an offensive in Flanders...
...high-water mark of the evening was reached in the triumphant rebuttal made by Mag of Yale, on whom the credit for the team's success chiefly fell
...judge Charles William Eliot aright, you must put out of mind his titles, his honors, and his successes. These have been but happy accidents. They reflect credit on the community to which he belonged, and the times in which he lived; but they throw little light on his character. That he was elected President of Harvard College was surprising; that he made a success of his new work was more surprising. For he had not what was usually recognized as an academic mind. Like Wordsworth, he had "to create the taste by which he was appreciated...