Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania never made great headway. It has entered politics chiefly with negative success in the Pittsburgh region. It was able to send about 5,000 members to the parade in Washington last summer...
...finish her aria, then clapped her back again to Talleyhood, gave her an ovation every time there came a pause in the music, made her take ten little bows after her "Caro Nome" aria, recalled her 18 times at the end of the opera, pronounced her a success...
...Claremont Colleges ought to be of wide interest. The main issue seems to be whether these colleges can obtain a university outlook with a small college organization. The units, obviously, will not have the traditions which bequeath the Oxford colleges their intellectual heritage. The American attempt must find its success in American conditions...
...second omission is that the passive conduct of the Democrats does not necessarily portend Republican success in coming elections. By not taking issue, the Democrats may make some very good issues. Although Democratic voters in general will approve the entrance into the World Court, the repeal of the estate tax and the mere fact of the aluminum controversy added to the perennial tariff issue and viewed in the light of a distinct Democratic Party not leagued with the Insurgents, can give the Republicans the usual trouble at mid-term elections...
...despite the curiosity likely to be aroused, it is probable that the "Forum" will soon conclude that it, like the philosopher, is "looking in a dark cellar for a black cat which isn't there". The real success of the contest will rather be found in the mere fact of its existence. For, although Diogenes never found the honest man, he proved that one could earnestly seek him. Thus in throwing athwart the mists, the silhouette of a thinker, the "Forum" will, perhaps, have more success in broadcasting a thoughtful method of approach to argument, than in clarifying specific terms...