Word: succession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets at its maddening solidity across the field where on his shipmates struggle for transient glory. If success be their reward he plunges over the boxes, with little regard for the grey bearded dignity of his seniors who have drawn the ringside seats, to writhe across the field in a snake dance of victory, chanting appropriate verses of "The Armored Cruiser Squadron," until, massed before the ranks of rigid...
...great state, where he has mastered the most difficult task which confronts the President, namely, to be able to convince legislators and the people of the wisdom of his plans. Despite a hostile legislature he has reorganized the governmental departments and secured many needed laws, a record which forecasts success in promoting and obtaining desirable legislation in Congress. He has selected judges and other high officers in New York for their ability and experience without regard to any political influences, and his choice has invariably received the approval of the legislature. We should expect his appointments to his Cabinet...
...Yale debate was scheduled to take place in Jordan Hall, but the widespread interest in the campaign, and the success of the Harvard-Boston University debate held last spring on the same subject have made it seem advisable to hold the debate this fall in either Symphony Hall or the Boston Opera House...
...third of his entire capital during the second Cleveland administration. . . . He was also in business in 1913. . . . Had not the War intervened, the United States would have experienced a worse condition than in 1894. ... It is the sincere wish of the writer and this industry that your hopes of success may be blasted." Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Hess Hawley and sev¬ eral other directors of college athletics. R e a s o n s : n o t a n n o unced...
...face of the success of touch football there still stands a not inconsiderable impediment. One is not allowed to play touch football at Holders Field on the day when touch football was made to be played-Sunday. Touch football is probably invulnerable to formalization; its innocence defies every attack. Nevertheless, it can very quickly stop being a glad game if it has to be bootlegged to the far corners of Cambridge. There seems no reason why the University playing field should not be available on Sunday, whose afternoon has become the single free time for many who spend the playtime...