Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree of activity and success unprecedented in the annals of Harvard sport is the outstanding feature of the current athletic year now coming to a close. With only baseball and crew still to complete their seasons. Harvard has a Harvard has a record of many more victories than defeats in University sports...
...racetrack tipster who spotted winning horses with 75% success would be the greatest tipster in history. But a drama critic who forecasts with 75% correctness the financial result of Broadway plays, is only a mediocre seer. Last week Variety published its annual box score of Manhattan theatre critics. Seven of twelve men from the leading dailies made scores of .75 or better...
...what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands. Thus Critic Littell's victory may have surprised friends who knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty to pronounce on a play's likelihood of "success''). Hitherto he has concerned himself with "dramaturgy" rather than "show business," as would befit the son of Author Philip Littell (onetime editor of the New Republic) and the product of well-mannered Groton School (Groton, Mass.), where boys who read Shelley and play Mozart are often encouraged...
...Samborski's success in the recent development of intra-mural athletics under what have often been trying conditions is a tribute both to his ability and to the wisdom of Harvard's policy of athletics for all. Next year the new gymnasium will give intramural athletics much greater usefulness, and will help to place Mr. Bingham's program on a firm and sound basis...
...that Banker Morgan had personally brought about the agreement. But his departure, not for a Mediterranean yachting cruise this time but for the distant U. S., signalized the finality and success of the efforts of his fellow delegate, Owen D. Young. The press of all nations concerned joined in thoroughgoing applause for the onetime New York plowboy who, real author of the so-called Dawes Plan of 1924 and patient chairman of the so-called Second Dawes Committee, had at last had his name written into the history of world finance as author of the now-agreed-to Young Plan...