Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content with this success, they descended on the Yard at a prearranged signal and besieged bedraggled students on their way to class. All morning they remained at their posts braving the downpour, clad in the regulation green regimentals...
...Modernism," states Mr. Craig, "may be described as the literary expression . . . of dissatisfaction with the prevailing worship of material success that marked the last few years of the nineteenth century. The young idealist felt himself a spirit thrown by fate into an environment to which he did not belong. . . . Holding himself aloof from the world of reality, the poet went in pursuit of a vague and fugitive phantom of absolute beauty...
...loss to know why some of you voted against me. . . . Didn't I call you up Monday to tell you I was making you a Sachem. . . . Why, only 15 minutes of 5 today I did a favor for you. ... I hope you have as much success with your new leader as with me. ..." The vote that ended the Curry rule...
...debts. So when William III needed money in 1694 the Bank of England was created, the bank lending him ?1,200,000 in return for the right to issue banknotes and conduct a general banking business. The South Sea Bubble nearly ruined them in 1720. The early success of the Young Pretender (Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II) started a run in 1745. Napoleon's wars forced them to suspend payments in 1797. But the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was not to be downed by war, rebellion, or civil commotion. This year she celebrates her 240th birthday...
...must also remember that Harvard has at several times helped the city with contributions for city improvements and is greatly responsible for any growth and success that Cambridge has had during the past years," the mayor stressed with decided emphasis. "Furthermore, much of the land which some people desire to have taxed was not of any great value until the schools developed it. It is naturally quite difficult for us to make any demands from Harvard...