Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more can a football team win praise without victories than a student can attain honor without marks. Athletic success is measured by scores just as surely as scholastic is by A's and B's. Whatever may be our attempts to ignore this fact they are patently doomed to failure...
Today the Harvard eleven again performs before the eyes of the athletic world. Its showing against Dartmouth will constitute an important milestone on the road to failure or to success. It is thus not because we harbor any ill will toward the representatives of the Big Green every Harvard man would like to make the week end as pleasant as possible for his Hanoverian guests-but rather because victory is indispensible to a well deserved recognition that we hope to see the Crimson clad warriors on the big end of the score in this afternoon's gridiron battle...
...were induced to revolt spontaneously and went over to the Nationalists as Generalissimo Chiang's armies approached. Largely by such means and with very little fighting the Southern half of China was absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist Revolution, and today no man is oftener reviled and burned in effigy at Moscow than he ? except perhaps Great Britain's gaunt, bemonocled Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...first prize was won by Claggett Wilson of Manhattan, 'The second by Mr. Jensen. Artist Wilson, called "Clag" by his cronies, is darkly massive, fastidious, redolent of success. He suggests no garret-dweller, speaks in a deep voice of suave enthusiasms. He is not easy to classify, being proud of the scope of his work. He has done fanciful murals for the home of Mrs. James Cox Brady, widow of the financier, at Bernardsville, N. J., for Capitalist Harry F. Guggenheim's Long Island estate. Elsie de Wolfe, famed mistress of decor, paid a professional compliment when she engaged Artist...
...More interested in mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...