Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the loss by default of two contenders, Dudley and Eliot, the first House swimming meet of the season went off with considerable success last night, yielding victories for Leverett, Winthrop, and Dunster. Earlier in the afternoon the Adams basketball team gained a 44 to 13 win over Dunster and Winthrop boat Dudley...
This would be long enough to show the young man's potentialities the professor felt. His success there acceptance by a medical school or other institution of advanced training, would allow the young man to continue his detached duty while lack of success would return him to active duty in the Army, he explained...
...club itself fared better under administrative apathy than has drama as a whole; only occasional resounding flops have marred its record. But the recent success "Mashenka" probably concludes the Club's activity for the duration, and with this suspension the last taste of the theatre at Harvard will be gone...
When the drugstores' agent suggested that the rejected pair might make a good team, they decided to try. They were an instant success with the Thrifty Stores and their public. Truculence was the keynote of their first script. They climbed all over Charles Lindbergh ("The Molting Eagle"), Senator Burton K. Wheeler ("The Voice of the Montana Sheepherder"), Senator Rush Holt ("Marco Polo in Rompers"), and America First ("America Last"). Hordes of listeners thought the team's colloquial views of the world situation made sense. Typical was an October 1940 broadcast...
Commenting on the success of the drive to date, Kennedy stated that although "some Houses, particularly Winthrop, have been most gratifying in their response, we will continue to work on the others. In Eliot, several large entries have not reported yet, while Dunster still needs a lot of canvassing. All men in the House have been contacted, but it is difficult to get in touch with the commuters...