Word: successful
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...yardstick used in measuring a Congressman's success has changed. It used to be the number of bills you introduced. Now our constituents think that perhaps too many bills are introduced. What counts with our constituents is the service we give them and how well we oversee laws already on the books. The public is certainly less deferential to any officeholder, including Congressmen...
...said why not apply to this school, Harvard? Chris Schenkel had said that this guy McInally was going to play professional football so it seemed that the place had success in placing its graduates in good jobs...
Stiles also looked to the new running faculity as a major contributor to the team's success. Whereas last year in briggs Cage he concentrated on vaulting, now he spends "half the time running, and it helps a great deal." Obviously, Associate Coach Ed Stowell said, "Last year, Geoff was a 15' vaulter. This year, he's already cleared 16' twice...
Hopefully, Sheehan won't encounter such problems in the Greater Boston Championships or the upcoming Big Three Championship against Yale and Princeton. Stiles looks confidently to team success in both meets, but eyes the Heptagonal meet as a test for this year's Heps...
...books have outlasted other possessions. The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949) are the novels for which she was best known, but Glendinning offers useful glosses on others as well. With varying success, Bowen constantly attacked a single problem: the effect of innocence on a world that was not ready to cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that...