Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...triumph, the moment in the fable of success in which he had demonstrated to all the world how far he had come from his job as chore boy. Success did not mean relaxation. Asked when he will retire, he jerks his thumb toward the ground "When I'm down there. . . . Wouldn't last long if I sat down and stopped...
Norway is now observing the centenary of its greatest author's birth, at a time when his plays, though written for an audience of fifty years ago, are being revived with success. Ibsen's frankness no longer causes sensitive theatre-goers to shudder, for he has long since been surpassed in that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held...
...each year more alumni find this a convenient method of giving. This is one matter to which the old shibboleth "No gift too small, and none too large" applies. The plan doubtless has its defects, but thus far it has functioned satisfactorily, and its increasing popularity points to future success...
...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...
...curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...