Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern manners being adopted is often ludicrous. The African negro has no deity, but, in its place, a host of superstitions. These assume every possible form and apply to every thing. For instance, the wife of the chief is supposed to spit on the gun to insure success in the hunt. When I once failed to bag my game it was suggested that one of the women had failed to spit, and should be imprisoned! In another case the same man who drives a Ford in the afternoon may feel secure from a snake bite if the medicine man pretends...
...first Freshman Inter-Dormitory swimming match ever held in the history of Harvard sport was staged yesterday at the Big Tree Pool as the second division of the University meets and was attended with great success. After a series of extremely close events, Standish and Smith Halls ended with 23 points apiece; first place was awarded to the former, however, on the strength of its victory in the relay race. There will now be a brief cessation of activities to allow yesterday's first-year men and Monday's fraternity swimmers to rest up for the open University division, which...
...probably indicate that in the case of men whose abilities are so little specialized it would make but little difference in the long run into what field of business they entered. The history of many of the greatest figures in modern American industry shows that the field of their successes was chosen almost entirely by chance. Granted a modicum of brains and energy to start with, the indecision displayed by college students as to their intentions may be due to the simple fact that there is no one field in which alone they could look for success...
...social and financial success of the dance, held for the first time this year, assured it of being an annual affair. The ball will be held in a Boston hotel on the Friday preceding the first Yale hockey game. It was also decided that the chairmen are to be selected alternately from the Military and the Naval Science Departments...
...expedition was on the whole a success, as we succeeded in gathering many types of the snail which may soon be extinct, as well as others not here to fore discovered. The specimens which we brought back are now aestivating in the museum...