Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of this first excursion led to others. Thomas Cook opened all England to the provincials. Scotland had no direct railway connections those early days. So he organized an excursion by train and boat. For $5 each, 350 people traveled 800 miles. At Glasgow guns were fired in their honor, bands played...
...adjust himself to an entirely new mode of existence. One notion is uppermost in his mind. His business is to study. So he studies. In all probability, he does not even enter the competitions; and if he does, he lacks a certain savoir faire which is indispensable for success...
Before its arrival in Boston the play had enjoyed a run of 18 months in New Yorw, Chicago, New Haven, Princeton, and other cities, where it had met with great success, and been taken in all seriousness as a true representation of Harvard life. After this lengthy try-out in strange lands it had finally come back to its native setting and birthplace. For, written by a Radcliffe graduate, Mrs. Ryder Young, about Harvard students in their native haunts, it was a distinctly Greater Boston production. To make the atmosphere of the opening night entirely consistent with the tenor...
Although Uldine's vocation of bringing light and leisure to the worker has been crowned with success, four sessions of Sunday school represent the sum of her incursion into the subtleties of dogma. And like her Brooklyn prototype her educational progress has been but mediocre. But then, as Carlyle once remarked in a burst of etymological exaltation, the word "vates" once meant both "prophet" and "poet", and the ways of each are equally inscrutable to the average...
...Lutfman in the long runs, Kane and O'Neil, last year's Freshman captain, in the middle distance events, and Miller and Purns in the sprints, the University ought to be able to make a strong bid for the premier running honors of the east. The all around success of the team seems to rest largely with the field men who have not been so well tested yet and are thus more of an unknown Quantity. Jores in the high and broad jumps and Pratt in the weight events have both shown considerable promise...