Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sand hog" digging skyscraper and subway foundations under heavy air pressure which gives a workman who emerges too quickly cramps and pains called "the bends." Using his brain as well as his shovel, Sand Hog Bedaux was able after a few years to begin living the American success story of which he had dreamed in France. The new trade of "efficiency expert" had fired his imagination and he invented the Bedaux System of "B (for Bedaux) Units" now defined by Webster's Dictionary as "A system of wage payment in which work is subdivided into units equivalent...
...Success when the onetime Sand Hog married as his second wife a pretty Daughter of the American Revolution, Middle-Western Miss Fern Lombard. It was Success when the small, swarthy little emigrant returned to his native France and bought for $750,000 a princely chateau in Touraine, ordering its ancient vineyard grubbed up to make a golf course which proved that Charles Eugene Bedaux had been thoroughly amalgamated in the American Melting Pot. It was Success for Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux to disport themselves on the Riviera with a wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Herman Rogers, one of whose dashing friends...
...Contributors to Success." Whatever may be Dictator Stalin's personal views on God and Orthodoxy-he buried his second wife in a onetime Orthodox convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932)-Soviet leaders who are with Lenin against God were vastly relieved last week at signs that the past three months of leniency and revelations concerning the persistence of religion in Russia do not actually mean that "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World" grants in fact what is granted in words by Article 56 of the Electoral...
...religious communes are "legally registered societies" within the meaning of Article 56. Nevertheless and without explaining how he arrived at his conclusion, Prosecutor Vishinsky concluded by simply postulating that "only those registered societies which exist in the interests of the Soviet cause and which are contributors to the success of Socialism and to its further progress" are entitled by the Electoral Law to nominate candidates for the election December 12. This might be only Comrade Vishinsky's opinion, but last week all Russia accepted it as in fact closing a question which has been an open sore to Soviet...
From then on, Edgar Bergen practiced bringing voices up from his stomach without seeming to move his lips. His success is demonstrated in dummy Charlie McCarthy who crows, firsts, chuckles, sneers and whines over an NBC network every Sunday. He gets 100 letters a week. Never was a four-foot piece of Michigan pine more popular...