Word: successes
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Since Coach Near S. Quimby introduced wrestling at Overbrook in 1929, it has been adopted at five other U. S. schools for the blind. More remarkable, however, than the success of wrestling among blind boys has been the success of Overbrook's wrestlers against non-blind opponents. In the past five years, the school has won 31 matches, lost none. Almost all of its victories have been against non-blind opponents. Last week's victory was Overbrook's fourth this year, its first against blind opponents...
...time Mr. Atlas was a popular sculptor's model, his clients including James Earle Fraser and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. But his real commercial success dates from 1922 when he started to offer mail-order courses in physiculture. Today he has an office in London as well as Manhattan, claims he has started a total of 500,000 puny people on the road to potent health. Mr. Atlas' formula is "Dynamic Tension" which means pitting one set of muscles against another for exercise instead of using weights, bars, bells, springs...
...discussions of graduate and undergraduate members of the Instrumental Clubs last night showed an intense interest which bodes well for the success of the new officers. Elected amid voicing of universal opinion that the Clubs this year reached a low ebb, these officers are entrusted with the task of reviving enthusiasm. Specific plans are as yet unsettled, but the purposeful attitude of the members who voted down a motion to disband contrasts favorably with last autumn's lethargic rehearsals...
...majority of that half of the class which does not explore special mysteries in graduate school turns up soner or later in the Alumni Office. Seeking a broader base of acquaintance, the Directors have encouraged interviews with sophomores and juniors, and provided for earlier registration of seniors, with heartening success...
...movie-going public the best production of his career in "The Plainsman." With Gary Cooper as the far-famed, hard riding, Wild Bill Hickock, and Jean Arthur as the colorful figure of Calamity Jane, the picture needs only the barest outline of a plot to make it a huge success, but "The Plainsman" has more than this. It embraces the condensation of the period of frontier development from the eve of Lincoln's assassination to and through the reign of Buffalo Bill Cody...