Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Success--"Superiority, the Best Trade Mark," by O. S. Marden...
Harvard tried with great success a new style of play, in keeping the two guards always back; and although the Princeton team was able to pass the ball accurately in their own territory, they almost invariably lost the ball before a shoot for the basket could be obtained. In covering on the defense the University team was far superior to Princeton and the inability of the Princeton players to follow their men closely was directly responsible for much of the scoring...
...shrubs, or plants out of season, with ether, and then forcing them in a hot house, they would flower from eighteen to twenty days before the usual time. With this end in view Mr. Scott has performed a series of experiments with other alkaloids on different plants, with general success. He found that by treating the cotton plant with ether, it germinated before the control, or normal condition of the plant, and finally blossomed two weeks ahead of the usual time. On the other hand, although the antiseptic causes the celery plant to germinate more quickly, in the end there...
...practice on the Holmes Field rink yesterday afternoon the University hockey team defeated the second team by the score of 11 to 2. A slight change in the positions of the forwards proved a success, the first team showing a noticeable improvement in rushing the puck. Kernan was shifted to left end, Newhall played right end, and Wilder was moved to left center. The ice was much smoother than on Saturday, and was instrumental in making the passing swift and accurate on both teams...
...Hinrichs, in speaking on "Success and Successes with Especial Reference to New York Politics," said that even as a defeated reform candidate, he felt able to say the conditions are still very far from hopeless. The very fact that our form of government has thus far been a failure in the case of cities, has brought forward problems for the educated man to solve. He then showed that the great size of New York makes the combat against evil particularly interesting. Mr. Hinrichs then narrated the history of Brooklyn politics since 1881, as a good example of how upright...