Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game of student v. instructor, learning v. credits. This game would stop and the players either go home or work seriously, thinks President Mason, if comprehensive examinations were substituted for the present credit system wherein each course passed, each "credit" won, is an integer in the formula of "Success." President Mason went so far as to hint that the University of Chicago might be among the first to "demonstrate the courage to calmly abolish the entire system of credit bookkeeping."* If colleges are going to be less mechanical about how they teach, they will need to be more scrupulous about...
...some intelligence, to have such a simple, fundamental fact stated correctly, than to parade a lot of French kindergarten phrases, such as "c'est les fraises maudites" "tout Paris," "les dames Ameriquaines" etc.? I am keeping tab on you out of sheer love and hope for your artistic success. (Any damn fool can make money.) Dropped lines seem to be chronic with you now. That kind of "dropsy" is worse than your competitor's edema verbosum. And such crudities as "war boats" and wan dirge" make one suspect that, after all, there may "be a reason" for letters...
...knows better. When there come strolling down the leafy Champs Elysees, arm in arm, the brothers J. H. H. Boex, 71, and S. J. F. Boex, 68, then it is time to dart forward, shake their hands, and congratulate these two twinkling-eyed old gentlemen on the latest success of Novelist "J. H. Rosny...
Africana. Since the tendency is for popular U. S. song & dance to follow closely after the ebullient crooning and outflung gesturing of primitive Africans, it is logical that the Negro revue should crop up more frequently, with growing success. In Manhattan, the nation's theatrical headquarters, only two new shows opened last week. Both were "black-&-tan" affairs. The better, Africana, has to its credit swift changes, amazing doggers, several funny skits and Ethel Waters. Her 70-odd inches are topped by a small closely cropped head. She uses a typical husky, soft voice to unusual advantage, employs mannerisms...
...birds do by reversing the thrust that gives them flight, aviation would be vastly safer and more convenient. To this end, Inventor C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D. C., radio and television expert, has been applying himself lately to discover a literal "air brake." Last week he announced success...