Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regard to the success of the first touch football season and the future possibilities of the sport at the University, M. A. Cheek, Jr., '26, who directed the activity this fall, stated yesterday "I expect that twice as many teams will sign up for touch football next year as reported this season. The league will have to be organized earlier and will require enlarged playing facilities...
...feel exceptionally detached from this play, since it is on a foreign original and since it was produced in my absence. At the moment of writing I have seen one desperate rehearsal; and as a friendly critic I predict a great success...
...tuned' or syntonized system of wireless telegraphy, permitting the clearer re ception of messages, and of more than one message simultaneously on the same antenna. By 1901 I had so built up the power of my transmitter that I attempted talking from Cornwall to Newfoundland-with success on the very first trial. (This feat bore out my old contention, assailed by many, that the curvature of the earth would not impede the progress of electric waves.) The following year saw the extension of transatlantic communication to Capes Breton and Cod from Cornwall and I noted, for the first time...
...mileage discrepancies, at least in Britain's case, but the enormous lead of Germany over the others in respect to passengers was most striking, reflecting as it did a highly developed network of air transport at the public disposal. Features of the European year were: the success of Belgium's route to the Kongo, cutting the time from Brussels to three days from six weeks, the 70% increase of Austria's air mileage in 1925 over 1924, of 100% in passengers, of 180% in air freight...
This splendid ignoring of names and fames in connection with choosing the book of the month is a favorable indication to struggling writers Publishers are extremely wary of unpublished authors, and oftentimes a mediocre book may be carried to success by the name of the author. But when publishers see that the book itself is the object to be judged not the name of the author here will come a chance for the million masterpieces tucked away in burean drawers...