Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there's one man who doesn't expect to be taken in by wild dreams of success. Coach Hal Ulen is taking particular pains this year to keep the Crimson heads below the swelling point. Not that every Yale meet swimmer isn't justified in running around muttering "We beat Yale" to himself. It isn't every day that Harvard is able to break a string of 163 victories. But Ulen is watching out for over-confidence. He's got a team just now that's tops, and you can be pretty sure that he's going to break...
...full of conjecture about this public man and that. Then the choice comes. Somebody says he's good, somebody says he's bad. If it's a man from the South, somebody will make the amazing discovery that he joined the Democratic party because he wanted to make a success of politics...
Three years ago they made their first extensive venture outside of their own country, giving concerts in the principal European capitals with great success. The present chorus consists of picked singers from a much larger number...
Concerning success of the drive in its embyronic stage, Everitt said that in the Building Service unit of widespread A. F. of L. agitation a "substantial membership" of a few hundred maids has already been recruited from Harvard ranks...
...industrial personnel problems, is director of the "Human Engineering Laboratory" in Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. N. J. From testing 20,000 students, businessmen, professional workers, people in all walks of life, he has concluded that "an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in this country more often than any other single characteristic which the Human Engineering Laboratory has been able to isolate and measure." His laboratory has just published the Johnson O'Connor English Vocabulary Builder...