Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictate a compromise with the principle. For the present at least, it may be better to proceed cautiously with the area idea, and to advance generally on the basis of the combined fields of concentration plan. That this advance would be on solid ground is fully demonstrated by the success of a combination such as History and Literature. The emphasis and the trend from specialization is the same. Ultimately, when all the implications have been realized, and when a capable staff has been trained, the area system may conceivably flower forth in its full glory...
...coaches assembled and passed a recommendation that the point-system of judging matches be adopted as our national standard. The present scoring method, with its lack of definite standards for decisions, can be discarded if the National Wrestling Rules Committee adopts this new point-system, which has enjoyed unqualified success in the Big Ten conference...
...social occasions, told them to: 1) reform their governments; 2) stay at home to rule instead of spending eight months of the year, as many do, in Cannes, Biarritz, Paris; 3) stop spending revenues on their own pleasures. Britain had been scared into this unprecedented dressing down by the success of Mohandas Gandhi's recent fast to force reforms in the state of Rajkot (TIME, March...
...appointed temporary successor. Connoisseurs complained that Desfourneaux lacked his nephew's finesse, at his first execution took ten seconds to Deibler's customary three or four. Last week, after six weeks' cogitation, the prisons director pronounced Uncle Léopold's initial effort a complete success, thus making him France's new official high executioner...
Course au Trésor, an attempt to beguile the French with U. S. humor as the movies and radio report it, was a big success from the start, even eliciting a letter from a Ceylon fan asking for a handicap. The 200-franc prize goes to the first arrival with the required objects, usually...