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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is that strange silence that brings only happy sounds; the voice of the brook or the off-key whistle of a farm boy. It is that indefinable time of day or night which poets and song writers have tried to limit by a phrase without success. They call it gloaming, or twilight, or dusk and straightway destroy the illusion. It is none of these, but only ten minutes past sunset in New Hampshire and it must be heard and seen and felt, not rhymed and written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/20/1932 | See Source »

...decision was reached in consideration of the success of experimental films used during the current year to illustrate several courses in the Anthropology Department under R. B. Dixon, E. A. Hooten, and A. M. Tozzer '00, professors of Anthropology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motion Pictures Used With Success In Illustrating Courses In Anthropology--Film Library To Be Set Up at Peabody | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

...Film Foundation, in view of the success and expected continued use of films in the Anthropology Department, has undertaken to catalogue all films of value to the Anthropology Department, and to install them in the form of a permanent library in the University Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Motion Pictures Used With Success In Illustrating Courses In Anthropology--Film Library To Be Set Up at Peabody | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

...obvious attempt to disguise his delivery from the pitching berth, the president of the funsters beard down on the first CRIMSON batters without success. The executive board of the pressmen met the tosses of the Lampoon hurler with increasing vigor, and despite the fact that the bases were loaded, the baselines crowded with short stuttered humorists, CRIMSON runners were able to reach the bases safely each time. The referees, handicapped in their work by the constant orientation of play, did, however, reach the scene of action occasionally in time to penalize the losing team for holding, and for pilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newspapermen Pile Up Customary 23-2 Lead Over Funning Bagsters as Stellar Game Is Called on Account of Darkness | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

Other agents and agencies in the search for Col. Lindbergh's kidnapped child seemed no closer to success than they were on the windy night of March 1, when the baby was snatched from his New Jersey nursery. But in Washington last week another fantastic sideshow in the case was revealed. Principal in this show was a bad actor who first came to fame in the Harding era - Gaston Bullock Means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Nos. II & 27 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

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