Word: successful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team playing away from home needs even more than the usual support. A real live cheering section at the Princeton game will increase the team's chances of success by a great margin. To date, only about one hundred and fifty applications for tickets at Princeton have been handed in, of which less than forty are in the cheering section. The man outside the cheering section is of no great help; he is an interested spectator, not a rooter...
...Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...
Sunday night concerts at the Boston Opera House have turned out to be a huge success, and another wonderful bill is prepared for next Sunday...
Doubtless the calls on everyone for money just at this time are very great. The success of the Endowment Drive is receiving, and should receive, first attention by those in a position to give. But the latter should consider this kindred cause of restoration in exactly the same light. The general promotion of education is being helped in both instances. This matter is primarily the college man's business. A great part of the system for which he stands was violated. From him, and from his alone, must come the first steps in wiping out the crime of the twentieth...
...illustrate his point Professor Osterhaut told the interesting story of a young California scientist who defeated the high cost of living by finding a way of manufacturing tartaric acid in the laboratory. He produced a cheaper articles than was obtainable in the market, and made a commercial success of his venture...