Word: successful
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...student committee that organized the vote is uncertain how the results will be used. One committeeman felt that the student involvement was the goal as much as a clear statement of student opinion. "We'll feel the program is a success if we get groups working to pass their resolution and get kids thinking...
Gary O. Bergthold, a student in the Education School who directed the recruiting program, said yesterday he thought the drive had been "a great success." His hope before the drive originally had been to get 150 applications...
Bergthold said he thought the drive's "individual approach"--every applicant had a personal interview with a returned volunteer--was a major factor in the drive's success. "The Peace Corps has often failed to explain just what living and working overseas is like...
...coward, a liar, a swindler, a thief, a snob, a sot, a born loafer and a son of a bitch. When autograph hounds enclosed return postage in their letters, it is said that Harte used the stamps to pay his overdue butcher's bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills 20 volumes, his reputation was built on two short stories and 60 lines of doggerel, which Harte himself despised as "possibly...
Overland Hole. The two stories and his poem Plain Language from Truthful James, in which Ah Sin the Chinaman beats a table of U.S. poker players at their own game, have found permanent lodging in all the anthologies. Harte himself was astonished at the success of the poem, which was republished in papers and magazines all over the country. He had stuffed it into one issue of Overland merely to fill a hole, and ever after wished that he hadn...