Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the intellectual standpoint, success in the field depends on ability to think out certain problems in a fashion that puts a premium on general knowledge and imagination. A few individuals are able to get along with remarkably little work. Others try to do the same; some of these are really interested, but without the knack of "thinking geographically". The rest are just loafers looking for snap courses. Because only upperclassmen are regularly admitted to Geography 1, instructors must form their decisions upon the abilities of would-be concentrators without having any idea of their performance in course-work. When...
...arrived on a Sunday afternoon and the entire population seemed to be in the narrow streets either promenading, nursing their babies or washing clothes. I went up to the first old man I saw whose nose seemed sufficiently Grecian and tried to say a few words, but with no success. Then I approached a woman drawing water from the well, but here intuition must have given different information from what I asked for, because she called what I think was her husband, and not even my American pasport seemed to quiet his fury...
Getting off to a fairly convincing start, "King of Gamblers" proceeds to drift downhill with amazing rapidity. Claire Trevor as a blonde night club singer exercises her vocal organs with mild success for the first few minutes of the performance, but when the plot begins to thicken, the interest of the audience takes a definite slump...
...September in the Rain", tune which Melton introduces in his downtown night club promises to achieve some success. For this, and a few moments of good music, the picture is worth going...
After a summary of the "critical test in steel" and its success, the speaker turned to the "enigma," John L. Lewis. Claiming that "no one as yet among his followers thinks that Lewis will be faithless," Walsh claimed that many former Lewis enemies are now working with him. Powers Hapgood was mentioned in this connection as a man who thinks Lewis has been "converted...