Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garment and used-brick rackets, typified the kind of thing that Prosecutor Dewey is really after-the racket that preys on law-abiding businessmen. But not until the restaurant racket trial began last week did he enter in open court the kind of battle whose outcome would indicate eventual success or failure for his whole crusade. Labor Cancer, Imbued as a boy with the doctrines of a union printer in his father's shop, Thomas Dewey professes himself a true friend of Organized Labor. As such, he views with sorrow and anger the growth of the labor union...
After five years' effort to synthesize a harmless, efficient local anesthetic, a Columbia University Research physiologist, Dr. Raymond Lester Osborne, in Science last week reported success. Ever since Dr. Carl Roller, an Austrian who now practises ophthalmology in Manhattan, discovered in 1884 that cocaine deadens sensation long enough for a minor operation, doctors worried because i) cocaine may start a bad narcotic habit, 2) cause a dangerous shock to the system. Best substitute has been procaine (usually called novocain), synthesized in 1905 by a German. But procaine causes capillaries to expand. Thus, 1) an incision may bleed dangerously...
...went into a row of little boxes at the bottom of each staircase each with its own combination lock. My combination I never knew, which didn't matter as I had no letters; but I had great fun "listening for the tumblers" as in the detective stories, though without success. Maybe the whole thing is provided as an intellectual exercise for the undergraduates who have to discover the combination before they can get their letters. Anyway it must be much more fun for all than mere letter boxes, though not noticeably more efficient...
...pages, as she was tired of the one she had been on, and went on reading: "Hugh Capet in 987 A.D. founded the royal house of France and began the line of kings who were to unite that country into a great nation. The secret of Capetian success was the fact that for hundreds of years the royal line never failed to bring forth a ruler. Every king was able to propagate his kind...
...theory, can hardly substitute for that. The scheme of bringing part of Washington here, instead of sending the students to Washington, may indeed make the graduates acceptable to their government. At any rate, the two rival schemes will continue side by side for some time to come, and the success of the two can be compared. As the greater system will probably ultimately absorb the smaller, the scheme proven the more efficient can be accepted by it as the final solution...