Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure that it will be a delight to all his friends, both inside and outside the University, to know of this effort on his behalf, and you may have my most sincere wishes for all possible success...
Coach Henry Lamar has had remarkable success with his boxing teams that he has taught to "box rather than fight"; and it is a pity that the team will travel no more to battle the Coast Guard or Virginia, because there are plenty of potential champions in line. Some of the Freshmen are really good, and plenty of skill as well as just beef and brawn are being exhibited...
That the inoculation will not be a mere injection of the needle is obvious in the nigh-failure of the independent reading system here at Princeton. The success of this month's reading period will prove to a degree whether or not Princeton may be compared with Harvard in the realm of intellectual curiosity and integrity...
...Thames took fire. At 24 Kipling was the literary man of the hour. He cannily steered clear of cliques, ran foul of no colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman's output, or encouraged any man or woman to do so." He walked into success like a happy somnambulist: "That period was all, as I have said, a dream, in which it seemed that I could push down walls, walk through ramparts and stride across rivers." Kipling's parents; who lived till he was 45, remained his most sympathetic and helpful critics. He credits...
...Copper field, has done books on the meaning of dreams, the English ballad, the future of swearing. Because his last two books (I, Claudius, Claudius the God) were on Roman history and sold well in England and the U. S., readers might have expected him to follow up his success with more along the same line. Such readers were surprised, but should not have been, to discover last week that his latest novel was about a postage stamp...