Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming increasingly apparent that if any book be sufficiently odd either in subject matter or composition its success is assured in the present day market. Any excuse other than an extreme out-of-the-wayness would be difficult to find for the publication of Mr. Cooper's Albanian Tales. The fact that both the people and language of Albania are about as obscure as those of any country on earth is the only element of definite economic value possessed by this collection: that is, if one leaves out of account the expensive binding, and a number of excellent wood cuts...
...style which mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...
...offer it a very severe test. The forward wall, averaging 187 pounds, showed great lift and coordination on the offense, but had little opportunity to prove its worth on the defensive. It was the line's aggressive driving and almost perfect clearing that paved the way for the success of the off-tackle slants which netted the Crimson most of its yardage...
...Surpriges du Divorce" was first produced at the Theatre du Vaudeville in Paris where it met with considerable success. In 1912 it was given by the Cercle Francaise and in consideration of its reception then and its general excellence as a comedy they are planning to give-it again. The play is in three acts and calls for 11 characters, six male and five female. Monsieur Perrin will again direct the production A very modern theme runs throughout and, as the last line says, as a comedy it is a real "bolte a surpriges" The complicated matrimonial connections...
...that the over-supply of professionally trained men has decreased their average income; that men who make fruitful use of technical education could accomplish fields as much in non-professional fields with desirable dispersion of brilliance. The present fallacious reasoning, according to Dr. Clark, attributes to education a pecuniary success which in reality is identical in source with the conquest of the education itself...