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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ouster petition was regarded in many quarters as hardly more than a gesture, it appeared that Governor Kohler had opened his administration with conspicuous success. And Governor Kohler well knows that the man who stops La Follettism in Wisconsin is a man whom the nation will watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Carnations & Carnage | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...social work that may be met in part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy to officers selected from among men of experience in the work, instead of from a body of undergraduates of no qualifications except success in other fields, cannot fail to benefit the external side of Brooks House activity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREEDOM FOR BROOKS HOUSE | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...Junior Dance, like the old gray mare, is decidedly not what it used to be. Those who remember its halcyon days will verify this statement, and can add that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE JUNIOR DANCE | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...mail which was received late yesterday afternoon from guests, and state and national officials was included a letter from the White House, extending the best wishes of President Coolidge for the complete success of the first Annual Harvard Military Dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATE GUESTS FOR MILITARY BALL ARE ANNOUNCED TODAY | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...final club, having achieved which the young man concentrates upon more prominent acquaintances and the search for a rich wife. Princeton Mr. Pringle finds more democratic than Yale, but also infested with young men "on the make," and Harvard is better in that "charm" may be a substitute for success in student activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

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