Word: successful
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...humorous bestseller, Anything Can Happen; in Cambria, Calif. His father in Soviet Georgia taught him swordmaking, but Papashvily washed dishes and raised chickens after reaching Ellis Island in 1922. His U.S.-born wife Helen put his misadventures to paper in 1944, and four more books followed. Papashvily also found success as a sculptor of animals...
...style and strategy yesterday on the hill was different from the tactics which brought him success in Sanford. "I didn't have my good fastball out there. I was pacing myself because I wanted to make sure I could go nine innings. My curveball helped me out a lot," Brown said yesterday...
...Heath pickin' bass later went on to form the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). But, before the group acquired that famous name, it was called the Milt Jackson Quartet (still MJQ). Milt was its natural leader while Lewis provided the driving innovative musical compositional force key to the quartet's success...
Responding to a question, he credited the high level of student achievement in Japan to the dedication of Japanese mothers, for whom a principal goal in life is the academic success of their sons. So glowingly did he speak, that a member of the audience asked whether he was recommending that American women emulate their Japanese counterparts. He hesitated, then replied with an anecdote. A few years ago, he had asked a group of North House women whether they felt free to choose to be full-time wives and mothers. Their negative response was, he said, a matter of great...
Todd V. Tanaka '79, member of the Dunster House food subcommittee, said yesterday the committee has gained success in working with the dining hall manager to institute changes. "One good example was our suggestion of real donuts instead of the pre-processed ones. We requested them and we got what we wanted," Tanaka said...