Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidates will be judged on their success in handling the underprivileged children under their supervision, and on their ability to interest other students in the work...
...type of attack they employ. Defensively, the eleven has maintained a high average but offensively they have appeared different in almost every game. The reason for this is that the offense is built largely on deception, and as far as the ground-gained statistics at least are concerned, its success has varied with the opponents gullibility to this deception...
Against Navy, Dartmouth, and Princeton we have seen three varying degrees of success which the Harlow strategy can enjoy. Against Navy, the flaw in the team's scoring ability was most evident. When in midfield, with the Navy defenses necessarily spread out to guard against the Crimson pas threat, the mouse trap type of deception worked quite well. But once inside the twenty, when the Midshipmen secondary could accordion in a bit and the linemen could therefore risk being mousetrapped and charge in toward the center, the attack was stopped dead. In order to execute a mousetrap play, there must...
...palpable success of Mr. Goldwyn's gamble on his two "discoveries" is due partly to their own able performances, partly to the skillful production of bald, burly Associate Producer Merritt Hulburd, partly to the inherent soundness of the story by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Their hero, Terangi (Jon Hall), has been happy all his life because he has been free and healthy. His boss, Captain Nagle (Jerome Cowan), gave him a blue cap when he made him first mate of the fishing schooner; after that Terangi was happier than ever. His happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle...
...time Lotte Lehmann had her fortune told. The fortune teller's prediction tickled her (says she) more than the praise and plaudits which operatic fame have since brought her. The seer told her "that a new door was slowly opening for me, a door leading to great success in another branch of art." At ten the door opened a crack when Mme Lehmann sold poems to Berlin's Der Tag. In that struggling season she was still being told that she had "no voice." With occasional articles, a book of memoirs, she managed to keep her foot...