Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explains how various types and intensities of motivation may succeed or fail to sustain the flyer in his environment. This last point is the entire point of the article. The excerpts which you quoted might convey the impression to some, that all flyers are motivated by what might be termed psychologically unhealthy drives. That is not my opinion. There are some concerning whom this is true in all activities. Aviation has no more than its share...
...Appointed New York Industrialist Charles Ulrick Bay as Ambassador to Norway, to succeed veteran Diplomat Lithgow Osborne...
...rationing the answer? Herbert Hoover thought not. "If we can succeed in persuading every man and woman, every nation to do their utmost, we shall master this famine." His familiar suggestions for closing the gap without rationing: 1) voluntary reduction in diet by every U.S. citizen; 2) get every grain of cereal to market...
...High Council had met, prayed, chatted, and photographed each other at a high-ceilinged old Georgian house at Sunbury-on-Thames (once the seat of a noble Irish family, it had degenerated to a house of ill repute when the Army saved it in 1925). Last week, to succeed 74-year-old General George Carpenter, whom the war had kept in office two years past retirement age, the High Councilors finally chose Albert W. T. Orsborn...
...alarm, the President sent his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, abroad to dramatize the crisis. To prod the public and pressure the farmer, he appointed the Famine Emergency Committee, put crack Administrator Chester Davis at its head. Fiorello LaGuardia bounded onto the scene as director general of UNRRA, to succeed the tired and ailing Lehman. Cried LaGuardia, as he prodded the snail-paced Combined Food Board: "I am going to get wheat, or I am going to tell the world why not! . . . I am not going around like Evangeline Booth with a tambourine in my hand...