Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition:--under the democratic system, the United States has reached its present pinnacle, therefore experience has proven majority rule justified. As a matter of historical record, universal male suffrage has operated in America little more than a century. Before that time, propertied oligarchies led the people with considerable success as is witnessed by the Revolutionary War. The establishment of the American Constitution also was the work of men elected under a rigid property qualification...
...Unchastened Woman. Ten years ago this endeavor was a brisk success as played by the accomplished Emily Stevens. Just now it does not seem so brisk. There is an air about it of dust disturbed. People do not like so many lumps of coincidence in their play these days. There are complications about smuggling and infidelity, and some excellent acting. Violet Kemble Cooper and Morgan Farley have the leads...
...food "like a kitty," especially longed for shirts with sleeves instead of the sacklike garments slipped over his head. Then too a sideshow was tempting the Wiegman family with money for the boy's services as a "freak." He was ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms at the shoulders and then progressed to a county judgeship...
...knowledge of the English system of instruction and his undoubted scholarship will give an impetus to the tutorial system which will go far toward completing its success. Under the stimulus of Professor Murray and similar scholars in later years, tutors and undergraduates of every department whose work comes under the broad definition of poetry will benefit by personal contact with leaders of thought. Truly the chair in honor of Professor Norton is an unusually valuable addition to Harvard scholarship. In the words of President Lowell, the professorship of poetry "helps the struggle of years to place college emphasis on intellectual...
...basketball team ended its season well; the hockey and track squads have won even greater honor. The human desire for victory dictates some mention of this recent cluster of them Perhaps they do not stand for a success any the more real than seasons of uncrowned endeavor. But if defeat ought not to be unduly depressing, nor victory unduly intoxicating, it nevertheless remains that the latter is vastly the more preferable. The University is very naturally warmed by the success of its representatives and very properly unites in congratulating Captain Cumings, Captain Tibbetts, Captain Smith, and the teams which they...