Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anarchist, a distaste for violence prevented him from achieving important success. Desire for culture made him tour Europe and a thirst for more education made him come back and study post-graduate philosophy at Columbia University. Then he finds Ariel, a Jewish girl of 15, with whom he falls in love. They marry and find happiness in the pursuit of wisdom and the possession of love. A closing chapter, called "I Become A Daddy" announces, with infinite detail, the birth of a daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Durant...
Lieutenant Myers also pointed out the importance of radio in naval operations, when either distance or the roar of big guns makes all other forms of signalling or communication inadequate, if not impossible. The radio officer of a fleet or line vessel therefore has the success of a naval operation depending to a large degree upon his department...
...letter from Carroll to Mrs. Richards, a school teacher, gives the writer's opinion of small boys. "I wish you all success with your little boys," Carroll wrote; "to me they are not an attractive race of beings. As a little boy I was simply detestable, and if you wanted to induce me by money to come and teach them, I can only say you would have to offer me more than 10,000 pounds sterling a year." Another letter of interest is one written by Carroll in such small script that it is hardly legible. The letter was signed...
...recent issue of the American Magazine has conferred a new and unhackneyed honor upon a citizen of Iowa. He was neither the Best nor the Most in his class at college, nor has he in after life attained unusual success. He is, in brief the most average man in the United States: driving the average car, having the average number in his family, the average social affiliations, and the average views, apparently, on everything...
...abandon with which the Crimson tossed forward passes to the winds and the success attending these attempts was surprising. A. E. French '29 and Crosby made star catches of difficult pass chances, and the Crimson's second touchdown came on a long toss from David Guarnaccia '29 to A. O. Fordyce '28, who had only three yards to run. The few lateral passes attempted worked smoothly...