Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is the first year that Juniors have helped the Seniors in getting their Album together, and the experiment, advocated by last year's committee and voted upon by the Student Council, has proved such a success that it will probably continue indefinitely...
Control of a prominent French daily is a mark of success every French politician can understand. It means more than an obvious chance to spread propaganda; it means that the lucky politico has Backers...
Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, attributed Kirkland's success to efficient managing pointing to the record of not a single default in tennis this spring...
...skill and success with which the ticklish job was launched lent a blush of color to the proposed Moscow-San Francisco airline. The route is by far the most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
Arthur Burton Rascoe came from such acorny beginnings that sentimentalists of success might well have expected his career to achieve oaklike stature. Born (1892) in Fulton, Ky. where his father tended bar, he spent his barefoot childhood in the peaceful democracy of a small provincial town. Shortly before Prohibition shut down on Hickman County, Father Rascoe moved his family to the cruder boom environment of Shawnee, Okla. There Burton grew up with his peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward...