Word: unsuccessful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fitted the old Gilman place. A carpenter by trade and inclination, he found plenty to do in his own neighborhood, could not conceive why his more restless brothers wanted to leave home. When Margery Lee, the local schoolmistress, came to board and his brother Jeff courted her with signal unsuccess, Luke understood Jeff's sudden departure. But Luke was pretty sure nothing could change him. Then he fell in love with Margery himself. She hated the country, was consumed with metropolitan ambitions, swore she would some day see her name in Broadway lights. But when she married Luke that...
...football, beginning 1915 when Bernie obtained the Gophers the Big Ten title. In the record books of the University Montana, there is no such brilliance attached to Coach Bierman's name. Mustered out of the Marine Corps, he served two years as University of Montana's coach, years unsuccess enough to cause him to quit coaching in favor of selling bonds in Minneapolis...