Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astor was one of the first to bank on Manhattan's rapid growth. In 20 years he invested well over $700,000 in Manhattan property. "The funds employed came almost entirely from the profits of Astor's China trade, which, in its turn, had been based principally upon his success as a dealer in furs, and also as a general merchant...
...much is known as to the quality of play which the Minnesota stickmen will display as compared with the fast game which has sent the Crimson through a difficult schedule with considerable success. They are reputed to play an open, hard-checking game, and possess a forward line which has excited much favorable comment all over the country. But if the University skaters can shake off these invaders, and then follow with wins over Dartmouth and Yale, there will be no dispute as to the claims which they will hold forth on the collegiate championship of the country...
...Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live cleanly, avoid dirt, and the pathway to monetary, armorial, and spiritual success is a broad highway with a 20 percent grade. In those days there was no Comparative Literature...
...present characters to an audience which has formed preconceived notions from reading the famous novel by J. B. Priestly. The name of the book has at once brought people to the theatre, and made them critical. In spite of this and other handicaps, however, "The Good Companions" proved the success of their play as a whole by drawing prolonged applause...
...allowed and inclined to go. In this case they would be given their examinations during their stay at Lake Placid. The last examinations which Wood and Cunningham have to face are not easily adapted to giving out of college however, and it is more than likely that the success of such a trip to either of them would hang on the chance that they would be at least temporarily excused from these tests. This is an unlikely supposition...