Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next to polish off six lightweight crews, including Harvard, in the Wright Cup races. This afternoon on Princeton's Lake Carnegic, the Crimson will be out to follow Nassau's example, and Coach Haines has gone to the trouble of switching strokes in an effort to succeed...
...Paris Conservatory Orchestra, then conducted by Charles Munch, Finally, he wrote a letter to A. Tillman Merritt, professor of Music and now chairman of the Music Department asking, "have you ever heard of a conductor named Charles Munch? He seems to me to be the logical choice to succeed Koussevitzky in Boston...
...friendliness and at the same time maintains the dignity of age and position. I cannot imagine another U.S. general lowering his voice and, staring musingly into the distance, saying: We may fail here, but all men who truly have religion in their hearts must believe that we can succeed, must stand with respect before the miracle of what has happened in Japan...
...competitive nature; in print, he was soon pummeling the writings of Henry Robinson Luce, editor of the Hotchkiss Literary Monthly. Their friendly competition turned to collaboration on the Yale Daily News, where Hadden was chairman and Luce managing editor. On graduation their classmates picked Hadden as "most likely to succeed" and Luce as "most brilliant" of their class...
Considerable pressure, though, demanding rejection of the Sullivan Bill has been put on Senators during the past week by members of the Civil Liberties Union and the Progressive Party, who may succeed in making a bigger issue of H 442 than it originally...