Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crimson head coach Arthur Valpey had high hopes of success for his two former football players. "They're both good fundamentalists and they have a fine basic knowledge of the system...
Valpey Predicts Success...
...next two weeks the sun stays out long enough to allow plenty of outdoor work the Crimson may very well repeat last season's success, despite the loss of its stars. "We've got plenty to mean about," Barnaby says, "but with a little good luck on the weather we, should have a good season. On paper we're weak, but we've such a spirited, hardworking squad that out of it something's bound to come...
More to the point, this was definitely one of the group's ups, and they performed the Mass with such success that its 160-odd years of neglect seem an unforgivable oversight. The only uncooperative figure was Trinity Church itself, which turned out to be an acoustical flop. It has no capacity for distributing sound throughout its Romanesque caverns, and if you were sitting as I was with the basses and tenors turned away from you, you scarcely heard them...
Hollywood used to shy away from heavy "messages" and social consciousness, but last week the moviemakers were feverishly racing one another to make problem pictures. Emboldened by last season's success at denouncing anti-Semitism (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement) and examining mental illness (The Snake Pit), Hollywood was tackling a new and difficult subject: the Negro problem. Apparently no one was much worried about how it would do at the box office; the only question was which company would get its picture out first...