Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contributed nothing to the success of the trip and almost turned it to disaster, writes his own account of the flight and the American people read it avidly, admire his nerve, and save up confetti for his reception when he returns to New York. The French aviators have shown almost unbelievable restraint and courtesy towards Schrieber, but that surely does not justify our dismissal of his action in endangering the lives of three men in a foolhardy gesture...
Tomorrow afternoon the success or failure of the Crimson crew season will be decided. The climactic clash of the campaign with Yale will find the Harvard oarsmen battling against terrific odds and rushing on to what seems to be inevitable defeat...
Rene Leriche: Professor of Surgery at the University of Strasbourg, who has shown how to operate with success on the delicate fibres of the sympathetic nervous system...
...close of the season the captaincy for next year was once again voted to Stollmeyer whose steadily brilliant work was largely responsible for what success the Crimson...
...only too obvious that not the slightest effort has been made by the Society to keep up with the changes in educational method at Harvard. Founded at a time when all scholastic success was measured by isolated course grades, this organization has continued on the ancient theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying...