Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Success should be more likely this time, thanks mainly to a reduced and more experienced chorus. The sopranos do remarkably well with their high B's, and the chorus as a whole lacks that unwieldiness which nearly brought disaster last year. On the debit side thus far must be listed Mr. Burgin's violin solo in the "Benedictus" and the performance of the women soloists. Miss Vreeland, the soprano, has the unfortunate habit of stealing upon notes, while the contralto, Miss Kaskas is too sugary. It is to be hoped that at the actual concerts these flaws will disappear...
...Refugee Students can raise an equalize. Furthermore, the University is in part covered by a generous gift of $5000, and it looks very probable that the remainder will be donated by some humane alumnus or alumni. Thus the Corporation assumed almost negligible financial responsibility and left the actual success of the refugee plan up to the student body...
...Brothers Gruen are a little wide-eyed at the astonishing success of Benjamin Samuel Katz, who crosses the Atlantic six times a year, wears the latest Gruen wrist watch ("Ristside") and smokes cigars incessantly...
Fluent, forthright, well-informed, Major Eliot's ordinary conversation is a blend of profanity, military terminology and rolling oratorical flourishes. It brought him success as a lecturer; magazine contributions gave him a reputation; and in 1937 he collaborated with Major Richard Ernest Dupuy in writing // War Comes, a survey of potential war zones...
...Success in the Georgian Cafeteria strike was celebrated at a Student Union Labor Committee meeting held in the Phillips Brooks House on Saturday at 12 o'clock. Ernest J. Simmons '26, assistant professor of English, and president of the Teachers' Union, was among the speakers...