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Word: successes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago in the roaring seventies, it is generously sprinkled with songs by the delectable Alice Faye and fist fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power; and with the great fire as a brilliant climax, Hollywood's latest excursion into the realm of spectacular catastrophe proves a great success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 4/21/1938 | See Source »

...February, 1936, Bruening, exiled from Germany, visited Cambridge for the first time and delivered the Godkin Lectures. At that time he blamed the Nazi success on the unpopularity of the Reichstag because it had to tax so heavily to meet the World War debts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruening to Come Back to Harvard In Fall to Lecture | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

Science's conquest of cancer is one step nearer success today because Louis F. Fieser '25, professor of Chemistry, has formulated a more specific definition than research workers have ever had before of the essential structural peculiarities of the chemicals that produce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 4/20/1938 | See Source »

...trap. Your acts have been deliberate and intentional and were committed with an unusually full opportunity for understanding their effect upon others and the consequences to yourself. You have enjoyed the advantage of the best education in America. You had the fruits of business and financial success. . . . You headed the greatest financial institution in the world. All of these you betrayed. By your example the decent forces of the world received a setback. I can see nothing in your record to mitigate the circumstances. . . . I sentence you to an indeterminate term of from five to ten years in State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Substantial and Punitive | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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