Word: successful
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Regardless of how and to what extent the University's administration chooses to support new uses of information technology, it has already gained the support of those who may ultimately be most influential to its success: the students...
Development Office officials said that class leadership in soliciting donations is the most important factor for success. David Dearborn '59, a Development Office staff member who works with several classes, including 1941 and 1946, said some classes have a high degree of organization and enthusiasm and are able to pull in high totals year after year...
...Much of the success will depend on how well we can make a case for the funds for the center," Feagin said. "Jim is very talented. He is a terrific strategist and a wonderful fundraiser...
...rest of her talents did not come together so readily. Hammett was crucial to her success. When she began writing plays, he typed them (in those days she was a $15-a-week manuscript reader; he was a famous author). He slaved over her first hit, The Children's Hour, giving her the plot, goading her to sharpen the language and making her exaggerated gambits more realistic. Meanwhile, his own fiction was languishing; weakened by drink and pulmonary disease, he published only one book, The Thin Man, after he met Hellman...
...communist, he ran afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee and was indicted for refusing to testify. Lily, as he called her, was then a rich writer, but, lest her career be jeopardized, she refused to make his bail, departing, instead, for London and Paris. Why? Reveling in success, and desperate to write the script for an Alexander Korda movie of War and Peace, she was afraid of being branded a leftist...