Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known institutions of learning--Harvard College--was founded in October 1636 by John Harvard. Through the years Harvard has developed into one of the most famous institutions of its kind in the world. Keeping in step with the upward trend in education was responsible for the long life and success of Harvard, and it is with pride that we point to our ever-growing list of satisfied customers as proof that this market, through the past half-century of its existence, has adhered to a policy of QUALITY, SERVICE, AND SANITATION. Join that list today...
...lack of sufficient white teachers the use of the English language is very limited and is nothing like what it should be after 35 years of American occupation. . . . Money expended per year, per pupil, $9.42. . . . The agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable...
...cellist. Later he toured through Europe with a string quartet. He started conducting in 1925, served for a time with the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Covent Garden Opera. As regular conductor of the Leeds Symphony and the Scottish Orchestra of Glasgow, he has had such success that both organizations have increased their audiences measurably, extended their seasons. The Philharmonic announced these facts proudly last week. Still many were surprised that Barbirolli's engagement was for a ten-week period, wondered why he was not given a chance first to prove himself on a shorter visit...
...certain oldtime glamor kept company with the Russians wherever they went. The series of books on Nijinsky and the old Diaghilev company helped to inspire enthusiasm. The old Diaghilev ballets have had the greatest success. The youthful company has worked hard to interpret them faithfully, boasts several leading dancers who have conspicuous talent. From the Diaghilev company came Léonide Massine, the galvanic maître de ballet whose dancing is marvelously fleet and polished. Another Diaghilev dancer is Alexandra Danilova, a piquant ballerina trained in Petrograd's Theatre Street. Beau Brummel of the company is black-haired...
...bulbous and bearded impresario, Yale's famed Drama Professor Monty Woolley simultaneously makes his debut and a great success...