Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year Greek archeologists have been exploring the site of Thermopylae, hoping to find some tangible trace of the battle. Last week they reported success-spears, arrows and other weapons, crusted with rust after lying 2,419 years where the warriors of Thermopylae dropped them. They were buried in silt deposited by the River Spercheius, which has enlarged the pass from a bottleneck 14 yards wide to an alluvial plain one and one-half to three miles across...
...picturization of the novelette by James Hilton that gave Alexander Woollcott such a good cry five years ago. Like the book, it is sentimental in the precise sense: it exploits emotions which, reduced to propositions, most people would reject as false-e.g., that failure is somehow preferable to success. Shrewdly directed by Sam Wood, the cinementor of the Marx Brothers, Goodbye, Mr. Chips goes out for tears as unscrupulously and efficiently as those merry-andrews go out for laughs...
...Clay and his world of stuff coupled with unerring control goes much of the credit for the team's success. Coach Samborski feels that Clay will bolster the Varsity mound staff next year considerably. Clay gets tougher than over when men are on the bases. He left over a dozen Andoverites stranded on the sacks when the Crimson toppled the Academy boys from the ranks of the undefeated...
...also form the number one doubles pair. These two players are very evenly matched; thus far Burt has kept the number one position because of his impressive record in outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina respectively...
Holding down the number five post is Chet Legg whose lack of success in outside matches is no indication of his ability. His problem is to play as well in matches as he can in practice. 'Filling out the first six is Jack Stewart, whose long reach and dogged fight make up for what he lacks in fluency of stroke. This first team is composed entirely of Juniors and the improvement they have shown bodes very well for next year...