Word: successful
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...their mid-season graduation. Jordan must now find adequate replacement at 155 and 165 if the Crimson is to continue in its undefeated ways. A renovated grappling outfit will get its first test Saturday when Army visits the Blockhouse, and the performances of the two men may determine the success the team enjoys for the rest of the season...
...order to hasten the success of the program, Mason demanded that the United States force the Marshall Plan nations to "put their houses in order." He declared the nations receiving aid must strengthen their internal finances and learn to cooperate. He also asked the United States to reorganize European trade...
...Rhodes Scholar and later an assistant dean at Harvard, Bill Nichols first looked for success as a pressagent for the late Sam Insull. When Insull's utilities empire collapsed in 1932, Nichols switched painlessly to a Harvard publicity job and then to TVA. In 1937 he became editor of Sunset, a Pacific Coast house-&-garden monthly; in 1943 he became editor of This Week, only four years after joining the staff of its founding editor, the late Mrs. William Brown ("Missy") Meloney. Both money-losers were out of the red a year after he took them over...
P.O.A.U.'s new executive director, Dr. Glenn L. Archer, former dean of the Law School of Kansas' Washburn University, was encouraged by the success of last week's meeting. In an "Address to All Americans," his organization declared that recent events "have aroused a substantial body of public opinion to the danger that threatens religious liberty as guaranteed by the separation of church and state . . . In a recent public pronouncement issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference and signed by American cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the hierarchy brands the separation of church and state a 'shibboleth...
...came on such lines as these from the 15 poems of German Poet Rainer Maria Rilke's The Life of the Virgin Mary (Das Marienleben), he determined to set them to song. But the first performance of Marienleben, 25 years ago, was not, even Hindemith admitted, "a sensational success." Jagged with octave jumps, hard-to-land-on intervals of sevenths and ninths, and grinding dissonances, his high-tensioned 70-minute song cycle was even more difficult to sing than to listen...