Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with success, Sarga last week followed up with another encounter, this time against George Vazsony, a bank employe, but not one of the original nine "insulters." Dueler Sarga again polished up his sabre, went out to tackle George because his mother had said catty things about Mrs. Sarga. For 90 minutes sabre clashed against sabre. After seven rounds Dr. Sarga got the surprise of his dueling career-a wound in the head. For seven more rounds he fought on until he had lost so much blood that he had to be carried off the field...
...Transcontinental & Western Air have separately been investigating high-altitude flying. P.A.A. decided that 20,000 ft. was its optimum flight path; T.W.A. has plumped for an "overweather" route as high as 35,000 ft. Boeing also had been doing high-altitude research for the Army. This fact, plus the success of the four-motored 299, intrigued both P.A.A. and T.W.A. Last week the two noncompeting lines got together, gave Boeing contracts for eight four-motored transports to do the job originally scheduled...
...graduate mechanical engineer of Stevens Institute, once earned his living designing mechanical toys. In Paris eleven years ago Sandy Calder found him self in great demand at parties because of his circus of bent-wire figures which could gallop round a ring, jump through hoops, dance. This success made him give up his none too successful painting. Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent a truck to carry the statues to the exhibition hall and found no one at the station but Sculptor Calder with a pair...
...amateur interests. If radio talks on administrative reorganization, civil service reform, regulation of industry, and the like can engender a more intelligent attitude towards government in those who do not concentrate in political fields and in the public at large, the experiment of the embryonic publication deserves every aerial success...
...ability, nevertheless they give an accurate indication of his possibilities for future development. If he is to grow up "not a genius, but an outstanding man in professional life", he is likely to put forth his branches early, and to show his promise by a reasonable measure of success in the competitive academic struggle. And "progressive" education in modern schools and colleges falls when it fails to supply the incentive of competition by weeding out the shiftless and incompetent...