Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the now Constitution, the Union Committee should receive more support from freshmen for all projects than in previous years. And since it can collect voluntary dues from the class if necessary, it may succeed in doing more for first year men in the way of activities than was possible in he past. But more than this, a successful Union Committee election would help show that the representative system can itself be successful...
With 50 "Qu' avecs" already built, the general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost of the planes I lost in my command and the training of the men killed in them...
Thereafter, as Margaret and Dean get sweeter, the hokum gets thicker and the film duller. Together with a little Yorkshire lad (Brian Roper), they discover a mysterious walled-up garden and start remaking it into a brilliantly Technicolored bower. They also succeed in reclaiming crusty old Herbert Marshall for a sunny, tear-washed finale...
Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. '20 was elected president of the Clubs for the year 1949-50 to succeed William M. Akin '19; Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 was reelected secretary, and H. S. Payson Rowe '23 was chosen treasurer to succeed Robinson...
...literary society; he had decided on a career as a writer when he discovered that his true genius was musical. For Thurs, it was a short step from hymns on the harmonica to composing a fugue for the piano. In short, he might have been voted most likely to succeed had not his wrestling the "Christian system" left him at the end of the book to face life with some unorthodox views...