Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buckner had quite a time getting shoes to fit the diagram. With it he tramped from shoe store to shoe store without success. Some salesmen thought him a bit balmy. Eventually he found the right fit. The salesman wanted to know what kind of man ordered shoes that way. Buckner told him and the salesman muttered: "Didn't know Frenchmen had such wide feet...
After that there could be no doubt that Harry Truman's three-day trip to Mexico was an unqualified diplomatic success. The trip had been planned on the spur of the moment, and largely because of his friendship for Mexico's bald, beaming Ambassador Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros. The ambassador had suggested a visit one day last winter; the President had agreed wholeheartedly, then had said: "How about some time in March...
Simultaneously, 14 letters attesting to the success of the first University food drive carried on last summer arrived in the Committee's Phillips Brooks House office. From students at Rennes, France, the letters expressed gratitude for the timely arrival of American...
...welter of systems that proclaim the true road to scholastic success, Perry has developed his own method of teaching study skills that result in durable learning and defining just what they are. In his "counsel" sessions Perry emphasizes to students that the principal objective is to think and not to rely on books or notes to do their thinking for them...
...Captain George Shedd, the schussmen will field a group which has raced together all season with increasing success. Rising from next-to-last places in the Dartmouth Carnival and intercollegiate Ski Union meets, the team finished fifth in the Appalachian Mountain Club Downhill contest last weekend...