Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...magazine. I haven't seen it. I haven't the slightest idea what it is going to be like. . . . This is merely a declination of an honor I do not deserve, if it should turn out that the first issue of Ken is a great success, which I hope it will be. But I had no hand...
Although Liechtenstein has no official Nazi party, a Nazi sympathy movement has been simmering for years within its National Union party. Fortnight ago, emboldened by Nazi success in Austria, the Liechtenstein Nazi leaders openly announced that they were off to Berlin "to seek closer ties with Germany." Last week, in elections for the Diet following the Prince's abdication, the National Unionists made a vigorous showing, winning 48 government electors against 52 for the Bourgeois (Government) party. Twenty-four hours later the young Prince deemed it wise to reshuffle his Cabinet, give several posts to National Union Nazis...
...wrote Dr. Spencer L. Rogers of California's San Diego State College last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. From the study of 60 prehistoric Peruvian skulls which bore evidence of trephining, Dr. Rogers was able to tell a good deal about the nature and success of the primitive operation. The methods used in removing the bone included drilling, sawing, cutting and scraping. If the patient did not die immediately, new bone tended to grow back although in no case was the hole completely closed. From this evidence Dr. Rogers concluded: that 78% of the victims survived...
Japan, predicts Journalist Price, will conquer China with "magnificent success." She will introduce orderly government, eliminate illiteracy, raise China industrially and culturally to the level of the first-class powers. At that point, "a brief hundred years or so" hence. China will revolt and resume "her ancient position of leadership...
Persecution made Watson stronger, but success beat him. In Congress he was despondent and ineffectual. He became wealthy, built a big house where he lived like an oldtime planter, but grew morose and vindictive, gradually stopped crusading for farmers and took up more sensational causes. Increasingly unhappy, he would interrupt his incoherent tirades against the Jews and Catholics with strange stories about assassins who were after him, about mysterious footprints found outside his mansion windows. At times he thought he was going insane. Beaten in one campaign after another, he was finally jeered off the stage in Atlanta, where...