Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leadership students would read the lives of Leaders Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Schwab, Ford, Edison, Sperry, Steinmetz et al., supplemented by Success Stories of the standard American Magazine type. There would be lectures by Instructor Wadsworth, stressing self-analysis, adaptability, flexibility of interest. Studies would also include a spatter of psychology, memory, will, habit, the brain and its structure. For homework the students would work over intelligence tests of the Army type and "Standard Interviews," a method of self-analysis which Instructor Wadsworth devised...
Thirteen sold-out houses in Manhattan alone followed Escudero's début recital. Michael E. Paterno, rich realtor, paid him $1,000 for dancing three minutes at a private party. Month ago Escudero returned to the U. S. to follow up last winter's success. After another Manhattan recital, he set out last week on a transcontinental tour which should make...
...University of California at Los Angeles which started to play Conference football in 1928, played it without brilliant success until this season. Against Oregon, three weeks ago, the last play of the game was a 75-yd. run for a touchdown which won for U. C. L. A., 12 to 7. Against Stanford last week, Verdi Boyer, California reserve guard, blocked two punts that brought two touchdowns that gave Stanford its second thrashing in two weeks, 13 to 6, before a crowd of 55,000 at Los Angeles...
...white stucco town house with a blue door arched with brick; a pink brick house with a shop on the ground floor, an apartment above. Each house is about two feet square, wired for electricity with a tiny fixture in the ceiling of each room. Encouraged by the success of these, Delano & Aldrich talents were bent last week on two new models: a larger business block with a restaurant and grocery on the ground floor, and an even larger Georgian mansion. Chief Draughtsman W. Bowman enthused: "It has a lovely staircase." These will sell at slightly higher prices...
...colored Silly Symphonies are an unqualified success, a colored Mickey Mouse will appear next year. Artist Disney has not yet decided whether to make his famed rodent a white mouse with red eyes or black to match his character...