Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertainers have ever had the success on Continental stages of honey-skinned, good-natured Josephine Baker. Born in St. Louis 30-odd years ago of an allegedly white father & a colored washerwoman, Josephine's education stopped with grade school. At the age of 14 she was already hoofing in second-rate St. Louis vaudeville houses, where she met and married one Billy Baker, a tap dancer who brought her to New York and eventually found her a job in the chorus of the No. 2 road company of Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when...
...curriculum is to be accomplished by compressing the courses already there, and by increasing the classroom work in the first year one hour a week. Experimental nature of the new plan was emphasized in the report, and provision was made for a Committee on Instruction to appraise the success of the proposals and develop such changes as may seem necessary...
Undergraduates are not likely to have much use for the reading machines until a larger collection of films become available. Pointing to the success of the venture at the New York Public Library, Motcalf envisaged a time when every part of the Widener would be supplied with projectors and films would constitute a large part of the library's service...
...Success in New York...
...profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even greater success of a newer and perhaps more progressive training...