Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overnight, Priestley-who had never acted before-stepped into the part, played a drunken Yorkshire photographer so nimbly that he boomed the show from drowsy success to smash hit. After his first performance Priestley confessed he had not been so nervous in 23 years: "My trouble was I didn't know the lines. You see, I wrote them...
Ralph Marion Stuck of Denver, Colo, described a device which he has used for a year with success: He drills two holes in the skull just above the hairline, halfway through the bone. Then he fastens the sharp ends of a pair of surgical ice tongs into the holes...
...same time Dr. Russell La Fayette Cecil, professor of clinical medicine at Cornell University Medical College and chairman of the New York Committee for Pneumonia Control, told the Kings County Medical Society that he had used M. & B. 693 with striking success in several cases of highly fatal Type III pneumonia. Moreover, said Dr. Cecil enthusiastically, the new English tablets appear to be effective against many types of pneumonia, may soon supplant expensive serums which have to be made specifically for each type of the disease...
Members of Kitchen Workers' A. F. of L. Union 186 walked out of the Georgian cafeteria Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Local 186 has had considerable success in the University, having organized 80 per cent of the kitchen help, but failed in an attempt to get a closed shop for the A.F. of L. last...
...getting $9 a week for up to 12 hours daily work. The Union wants an eight hour day and "as much pay as we can get." Moore laughingly denied that there would be a sympathy strike of Harvard cooks and dishwashers, and appeared optimistic of victory, citing the past success of the Union...