Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...historical paraphernalia attached. Let it not be gathered from the above that the reviewer did not enjoy reading the book in hand, for that would be very far from the truth. The story of Genghis Khan, the struggles of his childhood, the hardships of his early manhood, his growing success, and finally his great achievements culminating in the acquisition of an empire stretching from China to Arabia, could not fail to be interesting. Mr. Lamb's style, while not distinguished, is thoroughly adequate for the subject. It is fluent and easy to read, although the author has a rather distressing...
...Blue will be considerably more of a contest than the casual observer might except. There is no doubt but that Yale has the stronger team in so far as potential possibilities are concerned, and the records for the season show that the New Haven aggregation has had the greater success by a wide margin. Yale has defeated Army, Princeton and Dartmouth, three of the strongest teams in the East. Harvard, has had but one outstanding victory to its credit, that over Indians, but has fallen before Purdue, Pennsylvania and Dartmouth by no uncertain margins. On paper, as the sporting fraternity...
...unprecedented success of my magnum opus of last year. "The Forecast Saga, "had led to a popular clamor for a sequel, to called "The Silver Shovel." And I promised to write it, but the little woman has put her foot down. She says my life story must not appear, that she does not want to have to share me with all the world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give...
...Paolo Strozzi" is rich in allusions, wealthy in Renaissance background. It is painted in only the deepest and most beautiful Italian reds and Simone Martin blues and golds. (The poem would have been a better success as a prose explanation of a panel painting...
...Success in the Harvard-Yale football series has come to each team in cycles, but Fortune has smiled more often on the Blue than on the Crimson. Of the 45 games played, Yale has won 26, Harvard 13, and six have been tied...