Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time each student spends studying, for as long as grades in exams tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind is not the most apt to succeed. A more accurate measure of ability seems to be the thesis, a topic not mentioned by Dr. Lowell...
...planned to study engineering in the U. S., had spent his money on guns instead of books. Listed for assassination were Lion Alessandri, his family, Gustavo Ross, rightist candidate for President in next October's election (he is supported by the President who cannot by Chilean law succeed himself), many another rightist leader and editor...
Until this point in The Buccaneers, 16-year-old Nan St. George has been its heroine. Thereafter she shares the limelight with her governess, a cool, prim, middle-aged Englishwoman named Laura Testvalley. Laura decides that, since the girls have no chance in Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered...
...When New Dealer Maury Maverick was defeated for renomination in San Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat...
...Milwaukee, a regional meeting of representatives of 46,000 United Automobile Workers loyal to embattled President Homer Martin condemned Leader Lewis' proposed intervention in their troubled union affairs, voted to suspend their 5? monthly dues to C.I.O.-a move highly ominous if Homer Martin succeeds in retaining control of his 400,000-member union. Having lavished on steel and textile organization and on politics a great part of the reserve funds of his own United Mine Workers (the unsuccessful attempt to nominate U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy for Governor of Pennsylvania cost C.I.O. and U.M.W. a whacking...