Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some months ago I proposed to the world that we should further reduce and limit naval arms. . . . And daily in this room do I receive evidence of almost universal prayer that this negotiation shall succeed...
...Although I endeavored to correct the impression of foreign diplomats that the condition of Austria was very grave and bordering on revolution," said he in a startling official interview, "I must admit that I did not altogether succeed...
...acquisition of Dr. Hooey's services by the Harvard CRIMSON marks the triumphal conclusion to an arduous search through all sections of the world for a suitable prognosticator of football scores to succeed Joe Forecast. Astrologers, crystal gazers, weathermen, whole tribes of gypsies, spiritualists, and all sorts of seers in all the far corners of the globe have been interviewed by CRIMSON agents since Joe Forecast first intimated some months ago that the rosy path of matrimony was going to lead him forever away from the printshops and football stadia...
Ticknor is likewise expected to have a big season. He starred on his Freshman eleven and with a great future as a Sophomore predicted for him he ran into the old scholastic snag from which he did not succeed in disentangling himself until the first of last fall. When he did get back into harness he immediately set out to prove that the confidence of two year's before was not misplaced. He did this in so convincing fashion that within a week or so of the opening of practice, he found himself firmly entrenched on the first team...
...melodrama is by Clyde North, Albert C. Fuller, Jack T. Nelson. With its loudspeakers in the audience, mechanically realistic set and smart cast, it should succeed...