Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Rice orchards of Marlboro will supply the apples and necessary tools. If the trip is a success another may be held soon...
...selling ads for the Crimson Business Board. Remember, President Roosevelt was an editor of the Crimson; so were Joseph Clark Grew, Owen Wister, President Conant, and many others. June Freshmen are eligible for all boards, Sophomores for the Editorial Board. Come out tonight, and start the need to success...
Working on thirty undergraduate guinea pigs, the Psychology Department is conducting a series of experiments trying to determine who can learn the International Morse code, and who can't; under what conditions it's learned best; and whether or not success or failure can be predicated in advance. The thirty guinea pigs are more than willing subjects, for during the ten-week course they'll all attain speeds of close to thirteen words a minute in receiving code, enough to win them their amateur Radio Operators' license...
...play Saint Joan (1924) was his biggest box-office success. Asked if it meant he was about to become a Roman Catholic, Shaw cracked: "There's no room for two Popes...
...natural enough, some of it lingers on in the poetry. Old idols cannot be so easily and quickly uncrowned. Obscurity, still one of them, reigns supreme in Phemister's three love sonnets. Musically reminiscent of Donne, they lack Donne's fine-grained intensity. In "Furlough" Crockett tries with some success to fit a difficult French verse form to a mood of lyric nostalgia, but the same attempt in "Embarkation" does not come off as well. Both, however, are considerable improvements on his earlier work. Harrison's "The Trap" is a rather conventional cry of despair in the Eliot tradition...