Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time their letter wan circulated to members containing what was construed to refer to the League of Yellow Journalists. "We maintain that we are in NO WAY connected with other organizations seeking to follow in the wake of OUR brilliant success...
...various reasons, in these same hallowed precincts. Especially does this failure take on rather a poignant note when it is remembered that fully 350 ardent undergraduates have expressed their zeal by registering with the central bureau in Washington, but have been stopped on the threshhold of a shining success by the lack of leadership. No one has stepped forward to take on his shoulders the flaming mantle of the great Jouet Shouse. In this crying wilderness no prophet has arisen to lead the children to the promised land with the fervour of the noble Alfred Emmanuel, or the disinterested spirit...
...Advertised purpose was to provide opportunities for more young U. S. singers, to attract people who want to hear good opera but who have hitherto shied away from the formality and the high prices that prevail throughout the winter season. The first week was pronounced a definite success. Rehearsals were called for more productions: a revival of Gluck's Orpheus aiul Eurydice; the U. S. premiere of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi...
...opposition was Charles R. (for Richard) Gay. In an expression of appreciation for President Gay's arduous efforts to convince U. S. citizens that his is really a new deal administration, the Stock Exchange governing committee declared: ''He has sought, continually and aggressively and with demonstrable success, to remove the prejudices and misconceptions born of the Depression...
...students in Philosophy A and B especially, where a few high-powered cerebral machines run away with the section meetings, leaving the majority of the class cat their dust, make such a change seem increasingly necessary. Even discounting the natural fitness of History 1 for such treatment, the unquestioned success of the conference idea in this course, still augurs will for similar results in other fields...