Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government compulsion; 3) Government operation. Because of its potentialities for evil as well as good, he would postpone consideration of Government operation for the present. Compulsion he regards as neither desirable nor feasible. His choice: general co-operation between Government and private carriers, a slow but sure method the success of which depends largely on the attitude of railroad managements, and their willingness to change present railroad practice...
...chiefly imported. But she is approaching the ordeal with rare calm and self-possession. Back stage she knits constantly, "just like your President's wife." As Mrs. Henry Johansen, wife of a wealthy lumber merchant, her Metropolitan earnings mean little to her. "If I am a big success," she said last week, "I shall come back next year. Otherwise I stay in Norway...
...Eastern artist named Chester Harding who had gone out to the frontier to paint the portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits of his frontier neighbors enabled him to travel. To study painting he went to St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, eventually Düsseldorf, but he never lost touch with Missouri, never wearied of wading into her political struggles. He was elected to the State...
Unlike Gardiner, who had an unparalleled ability to anticipate plays and great success with the dangerous maneuver of skating out of his position to interrupt them, Chabot almost never leaves his net. Slow at regaining his feet when he falls down, he indulges in few of the acrobatic tricks that make the work of smaller goalies more spectacular. These qualities give his style of play a peculiar indolence which he exaggerates as much as possible. Instead of chattering encouragement to his teammates, the method by which most goalies relieve their nervous tension, he munches slowly a huge wad of chewing...
...Kiphuth was again made the victim of journalistic skullduggery. Yale lost the National Collegiate Swimming championships (no dual meet) to Michigan last year. Michigan, winners of last year's National Collegiate Swimming championships (no dual meet), has tried to arrange a dual meet with Yale this season, without success. Last week, an Ann Arbor sportswriter parodied a series of letters between Michigan's Coach Matt Mann and Yale's Kiphuth. Samples...