Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were far above the highest expectations, for the University's minimum allotment of $25,000 was doubled in the collection and the maximum of $40,000 was surpassed by more than $10,000. The collection was one of the largest ever made in the University, and proved an unqualified success...
...their labors is a sufficient satisfaction to them. They understood what was wanted; they went and got it. Last of all must we again congratulate Dr. Mott, for it was he who awakened us. His speech of last week was the original energy which put the wheels of success in motion. A good combination is a most difficult thing to beat. Such a combination as Dr. Mott, the University campaign committee and the body of Harvard undergraduates could do nothing but bring about desired results...
...military powers of University 1 have announced a new and stringent system of demerits in order to maintain that discipline in the Corps which is essential to the success of any military organization. At first sight these regulations, as laid down in General Orders No. 11, may appear a trifle severe; military probation for a few cuts and a missing button is a rather heavy penalty. In a way such radical methods have caused skeptics to believe that the disciplinary backbone of the Regiment was in bad need of bracing...
...happens, "A Cure For Curables" isn't a mastodonic success. It has a good idea, but as soon as it germinates, Hodge steps in sight for the first time and everybody knows the solution. In bringing about a happy fourth act, he foils three members of the caste, restores ten of them to health, regenerates one and marries one--all in the same evening. And if self-assurance was sand, Hodge would be the Sahara desert...
What counted most, however, in the British success against Bagdad was Sir Stanley's ability to control the Arabs. Where others had embittered the natives he won their friendship. His personal influence has been the great factor in preventing the ever-incipient revolts...