Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prospect for a conference in 1929," asserts Professor Hudson, "seems to make it desirable that the most thorough scientific preparation possible should be made to insure its success. If it is not the first time in history that a diplomatic conference in to be held for the avowed codification of international law, the occasion nevertheless presents an opportunity for disinterested scholars to have their work considered in a way which cannot fail to give it influence...
Documentary evidence of the complete success of the Reading Period experiment at Harvard was secured yesterday through the unstinting efforts of Mr. Ward, of the Watch and Ward Society. Leading authorities concurred last night in the belief that the recently-discovered manuscripts throw invaluable light on the social, economic, and political trend of the times, besides providing interesting material bearing on the attitude of modern youth toward education...
...sorts and conditions of men. He used only twenty-six of the forty-eight free weeks at his disposal, but I don't care what he did with the others. Those twenty-six weeks were what I call a 'vacation cum laude.' They gave him an unusual equipment for success and I only wish I could find more young men who possessed...
...wonderful guy, you know. I've never seen a man work so hard before. Get me? Once a show starts he never leaves it from the first rehearsal until it's several, weeks under way--that's where his success lies. He is always prowling around, fixing up things here and there well so long kid were off to the big city...
That Harvard examinations are designed, with unfailing success, to put the fear of Deity into their victims has long been an expressed opinion at certain stated times of the year; new confirmation, however, of this result appears in one of the several guidebooks to the city of Boston, which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that...