Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing well that the U. S. State Department scrutinizes all foreign loans offered to the U. S. public by U. S. banks, and knowing that such scrutiny would scarcely ensure success to a loan for a country which is not recognized by the U. S., the Soviet carried out its transaction privately and directly with U. S. citizens, by mail. To assure U. S. buyers, however, it was necessary to get some U. S. banks to act as agents, to pay out dollars for interest and amortization. The Soviet engaged, among other banks, the Chase National Bank of New York...
Hartal. Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission. Most industrial workers who struck at all struck for only part of one day, and a large majority of Indian shop-keepers ignored the call to close their shops. Many riots were characteristically not between Indians and the police but between Non-Co-operators and other Indians who preferred to go about their business...
...editorial goes on to wish a left-handed success to the successors; but that is not the point. In their nostalgia, the retiring editors are unaware of the essential humour of their remarks. They have found the Jester to be a sorry creature; but they forget that a sorry creature; conscious of his sorriness is pretty amusing to watch. Without their knowing it he has been sorry all along and I for one, have been amused by him. His imaginary figure fitting over the incubus of the proposed chapel or the Yale-Harvard scoreboard is as actual as any greybeard...
...admitted, "a man must master the English language, and college offers him that and other opportunities. But the greatest possibilities are in men themselves. I myself was born poor, have been one of the people and know and love them and that I think is the reason for my success...
...many others do likewise it is evident that there are certain regular stages which practically all candidates pass through First there is the stage of discouragement, what might properly be termed the 'danger stage.' It usually comes after the first few days; the candidate has worked hard with small success, he is jostled and croweded by other candidates who always seem to have some unwonted advantage over him. It is during this period that most candidates drop out; those who persist despite its disappointments seldom fall to achieve their goal. Then a few weeks later comes what might he called...