Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debating in Harvard renders a genuine service and in return it is neglected by students and administration alike. Its grievance is in no way lessened by the success it has won, for all its conquests are made at the expense of unneccessary pain and tribulation. Debating must be received into the body of the curriculum: into the Department of Public Speaking...
...this respect, the success of the new school will depend largely on the reversal of the spoilsiation of the permanent administrative parts of government. Training for this sort of public service will be wasted if the opportunities for a career are as limited as they...
...understandable. The position held by the Church in the minds and hearts of men would be greatly shaken, no matter which way this case may be decided. If the case is won by the plaintiffs, the Methodist Episcopal Church will be branded as having tried, without success, to get out of a just obligation. . . . On the other hand, if it should be found necessary to decide this case in favor of the defense, the Church would be relieved of a great financial burden, it is true, but it would be charged, in popular opinion, with having avoided, through technical means...
...Wine is Opus 67 for Sigmund ("Rommy'') Romberg. Born 48 years ago at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, he started out to be a bridge engineer. The success of a composition called Soldiers of Mercy, dedicated to the Hungarian Red Cross, turned him toward music. The first tune he published in the U. S. was Some Smoke, a turkey trot, in 1913. Following year he wrote his first operetta, The Blue Paradise, and the first of his 19 Winter Garden shows. Of all the scores he has written in the past generation, he likes The Student Prince, The New Moon...
...literary circles in Paris. Assigned to British Headquarters during the War, he wrote Les Silences du Colonel Bramble in 1918, found that his publisher did not believe a novel about the English would sell. More than 75.000 copies of the book were sold, and after a similar success with Ariel, his biography of Shelley, Maurois became recognized as an interpreter of the English to the French public...