Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are few more distinguished bodies of men than the Harvard Corporation. It is not a group of educators nor a financial board of directors. In it are gathered together Harvard graduates from all the professions, men who have demonstrated by their success in personal life their capability to direct Harvard's destinies...
...these experiences I have been particularly struck by the earnestness and intensity with which the responsible heads and representatives of the countries of the world are applying themselves to the problem of immediate mitigation and the ultimate disappearance of war. Among the elements which go to make for the success of a policy of peace and perhaps the most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington...
...twenty-fifth reunion is an occasion of gaiety and comedy for many but it becomes tragic even in its moments of forced jollity when the less fortunate members of the class look about them. A man is either a success or a distinct failure in his own view by the time of his twenty-fifth anniversary. And never is the fact of an alumnus' spiritual or financial short-coming more deeply or permanently impressed upon him than at such reunions when close comparisons are made and inequalities are evident...
These two developments are not steps in progress, they are leaps. The success of both systems is not to be proved. It is evident. The two converge in one ideal, mens saua in corpore sano...
First to see the iceberg dead ahead of the superliner Glamorland was Able Seaman James Morgan, lookout in the crow's nest. He saw it too late. At the same moment: Priggish, successful First Class Passanger Thurlow Burton was finishing his expensive dinner in the grill. Waiter Guiseppe Ziemssen was hovering for the tip. Beautiful but harebrained Mrs. Gilpin was sulking in her cabin. Her would be lover Major Wandrell was looking for her. Moses Vierstein, cloak & suit man, second class passenger, lay in his bunk wondering why he was not a success. All of them felt...