Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gutter of failure. The world that you have to face is a pretty dark one. Men enter with serious determination and singleness of purpose. You have got to find your way on. Here, you have the opportunity to gather strength to meet that battle. Today, as always, success depends upon the survival of the fittest. To be a success and gain some measure of happiness you must survive. To survive in this battle your brain must be trained. Here is your opportunity. Make the most...
Such is the task that confronts the Freshman, to be accomplished in the preposterously short period of three days. And on the success of the enterprise will often depend the fate of those who find themselves burdened in the middle of the year with an impossible schedule. If the "Freshman Days" must offer a found of pleasant surprise parties, they should afford what is far more important--an opportunity for a spell of concentrated course research...
...Junta supporter, Miguel Mariano Gomez, head of the Marianista faction. Absent was the entire diplomatic corps. President Grau San Martin swore a simple oath "to comply with all parts of the revolutionary program already decided upon and to respect all interests already established." But this show was no great success. Only 3,000 of Havana's critical crowd gathered in the square before the Palace to see the latest inauguration. Other thousands came up, took one look and went on. One of President Grau San Martin's first callers was Col. Ferrer with the word that the officers...
...became president of Morris Plan Corp., the Manhattan organization with Morns Plan banks in over 100 cities making small "character loans" to working men. Now as president of General American Life, he gives up banking for its cousin insurance, returns beyond the Mississippi to rebuild success upon the plains...
...live in Paris as if nothing was happening ; when that became impossible they went to Mallorca. The attack on Verdun brought them back to Paris, where they decided to equip and drive a Ford truck for the American Fund for French Wounded. Miss Stein did the driving, with fair success. (She never learned how to back very well.) The War over, they settled down again to Art. By this time Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (published in 1909) had given her a reputation among young U. S. writers. "Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson are very funny on the subject...