Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of the plan of the committee on admissions of the Dental School in restricting entrants to those who have had two year's work in a college of arts or sciences and in denying admission to students whose pre-dental work was of low grade was emphasized by Dean L.M.S. Miner D.M.D. '04 in his annual report to President Lowell...
Although men have, until comparatively recent times, persistently sought to find some mystical significance in numbers their efforts have met with but little success. The attempt to prove that qualities of good and evil are inherent in the number 7 and the number 13 respectively, has been virtually abandoned; human ingenuity has turned rather to a study of numbers in their relation to each other. While the mystic has discovered that numbers in themselves signify nothing, the mathematician has found that numbers in series or in combinations may mean a great deal...
...fact that a boy masquerading as a girl can be counted on for a goodly number of laughs has always insured the success of Hasty Pudding plays to their audiences. In the last two or three seasons this staff was leaned upon rather heavily, and although playing to full houses, the Pudding shows were rather weak...
...began to invest huge sums in the Marconi Radio Company. This was made necessary because the German submarines cut all the transatlantic cables. From 1920 on, the radio has advanced by leaps and bounds. From a business point of view, this new invention was sure to be a success because it accomplished the apparently impossible. The radio has saved approximately $30,000,000 for America, said Sarnoff, for it has greatly cut down the expense of transcontinental communication...
...more casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry, An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, and Euclid, Book...