Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser known Crimson sports is currently enjoying something of a reign of success. This is the squash team, which after a winless period of informal wartime play, has come back to take all but three of its postwar marches. And Saturday's Commanding 7 to 0 conquest of McGill indicates that the era of Harvard squash success is going to continue for another year at least...
Henry has all the qualities for future success and by the time he graduates he could easily leave a better record behind than did brother Adam. he relies on all-around play with clever placements and mancuvering, qualities which make Barnaby call him "a skill player" and not purely a fast shooter. Clark's strength comes from his bullet serve and hard smashes...
Belshazzar is an experiment which Rank thought up himself: a 15-minute illustrated sermon designed as a shot in the arm for congregations being slowly droned to death by uninspired parsons. If it is a success, it will be followed by other shorts, starring distinguished preachers...
...Heiskell is a holdout. The lean and gimlet-eyed boss of Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette snorts at the notion that a newspaper is just a 6% investment: it is first of all an institution, says he, and only incidentally a business. Because his paper is a great success in both roles, numerous buyers have greedily eyed it. Heiskell has always talked to them as sternly as if they were asking for the hand of one of his two daughters...
...thief, a murderer and a booze runner, but because Irey was able to prove to a jury that he hadn't shared his swag with the U.S. Treasury. One of Al's boys gave Irey's planted agent a classic explanation of Capone's success: "Everything is businesslike. Take The Enforcer [Gunman Frank Nitti]; he keeps everybody in line for Al. Somebody gets out of line, Al tells The Enforcer, the next thing you know a couple of guys get off a train from Detroit or New York or St. Louis, and The Enforcer tells them...