Word: successively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this reason an aggregation such as the soccer squad must be sized up and conditioned for play in an exceptionally short period of time. Because the coach has very little pre-season information on the team, the overall success of the squad depends on the ability of the coach to decide upon his best starting lineup early in the season and then work them together...
...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...
...newcomer to journalism, Barton once wrote editorials for a Sunday supplement called Every Week and then for Redbook magazine on such homely topics as prayer, success, happiness and free enterprise ("the system of hustle and hope"). After writing his bestselling life of Jesus (The Man Nobody Knows), depicting Him as "The Founder of Modern Business," Barton did a column ("Bruce Barton Says") for McClure's syndicate. Later he signed with King Features...
...mission as a young priest in 1900, it was a small experiment that seemed to have every chance of failure. Beginning in 1539, the Spanish Franciscans had given generously of their labors and their lives (more than 300 were martyred) to convert the Indians-with practically no success. In 1828, the last Spanish Franciscan withdrew. It was not until the century was almost over that American Franciscans decided to take up the work once again. With three monks they began St. Michael's in an abandoned trading post on a 160-acre tract of land...
...World Federalists will challenge the Harvard United Nations Council tonight to defend the success...