Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories succeed, largely because they focus on a concrete event; but the third, called "Apprentice," is nothing but a long, almost pointless narrative that is written carelessly. "The Prisoner," by Roger Princerd, is the high point of the magazine, owing its success to a straightforward and unpretentious style, and to having the solid basis of one realistic incident. The story of a stowaway being back to Poland from America, it remains objective and lucid throughout...
When Theodore Bilbo died of cancer last summer (TIME, Sept. i), it did not mean that Mississippi was out of demagogues. Poodle-haired Congressman John E. Rankin automatically succeeded him. Rankin thought he might succeed almost as easily to Bilbo's seat in the U.S. Senate. Apparently he thought wrong...
...Primordial Duty." In Athens last week, Sophoulis extended the amnesty offer for a month. He had not much hope that it would succeed. Greek Communists had become more strident. Trumpeted one of the proclamations of their Central Committee: "It is the primordial duty for . . . Communists without delay to mobilize all their forces . . . and act. . . . The political intentions of our movement today can be realized from a military point of view...
...inconceivable, Evatt concluded, that "the power of public opinion, focused through the General Assembly, would not in the long run succeed in over-coming the obstacles to successful operations of all organs of the United Nations, including the Security Council...
This approach clearly could not succeed without wide student approval. The Council must swing into action on existing long-range plans by immediately polling in the dining halls. If the student body lends a mandate to conservation, the Council could then present the University with its final proposals-and ask transferral of all financial savings from the slashes to its Relief Committee for channeling to the Unitarian and Friends Service Committees. The wishful weakness of a national "voluntary" approach can through such implementation find bolstering...