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Word: successes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claim it can do the job better and more efficiently. Under present conditions it seems doubtful whether it can find anything to offer that its members would accept or the American voters would take at face value. The Republican Party worked out to the last grain its vein of success and for the present it is through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Thin Pickings | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

From the Jukeboxes. In 1947, Scott flew to Lake Success. He heard the jukeboxes of America blaring the hit of the day, Bongo, Bongo, Bongo, I Don't Want to Leave the Congo. Unlike the missionaries in the jukebox hymn, the Rev. Scott was not so sure that "civilization is fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: A Cry for Humanity | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Lake Success, Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler blandly told reporters that his government knew all about the plot. Said he: "The situation is well in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Sang-Froid | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...first bad news had come from the Air Force, which for four years has been DDTing the marshes near Cocoa, Fla. with signal success. But this year, massed mosquito formations roared out of the swamps once again to puncture young & old. The Air Force fought back with more DDT, but it could not regain command of the air. The Department of Agriculture discovered that the Air Force defeat was due to a new, tough breed of mosquitoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: DDT Down, 2,4-D Up | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

There are many reasons for thinking that this new system will be a success. Not the least is that everyone is tired of flopping albums, and may be roused to more drastic action by further failures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Voice From the Past | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

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