Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whiteman added that the consistent success that his band met with throughout its European tour convinced him that American jazz is a language that everyone understands and feels. Going into Spain. Italy, Switzerland, countries in which they were unknown, he said they received hearty applause...
...Freshman eleven. A year ago he joined the University squad and was just gaining recognition as an outstanding line player when injuries prevented him from playing during the rest of the season. This fall his pregame performances indicated that he would be a strong factor in the success of the Crimson line. Despite his weight he was one of the fastest charging linemen who performed in the Stadium this fall. His work in opening holes in the opposing lines contributed a great deal to the success of the Harvard offense. Yet no holding penalties are known to have been charged...
...degree of identification of slides, even of monuments, is insurance against a too academic consideration of a mass of material. Anyone who has sat in a darkened room and tried his wits at snap judgments on a series of pictures appreciates the intensive training necessary for any kind of success. The gain to concentrators in the Fine Arts should be that which comes from expansion without diffusion...
...Greeterism a subtler thing than ever before. Take me, for example, a Senior. I have fulfilled all my ambitions, academic and social. There is no one on whom I need to use the Chummy. But under the House plan even Seniors will be continually meeting professors. Useful levers to success, as the Chummy proved to be in the Freshman. Sophomore, and Junior years, need not be discarded. Variety and constant refurbishing: only these things can save Harvard from Keezerism--or friendliness. This tocsin is, of course, not for the herd. But, in Chaucer's words: 'If gold rust, what shall...
Whetted by his first stroke of high finance, Fisk brashed into Wall Street, but with indifferent success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing. Drew was the man who drove thirsty live stock into Manhattan, and having watered it just before weighing it, greatly increased the pounds for sale, thus originating the financial term of "watering stock...