Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau, President James G. Harbord of the Radio Corp. of America, John T. Underwood (typewriters), onetime Vice President Raymond B. Small of the Postum Cereal Co.-had bought Inventor Josepho's device...
...Urbane and washed," as Mr. Mencken describes them, they open at once to that "fearful and wonderful" digest, "Americana," where that portion of the population which has had the least educational advantage is made to seem ridiculous by juxtaposing its mental fumbles with the studied brilliance of sophisticates. The success of the magazine to date has been one of circulation. Now it is going to try to make money. It will seek to demonstrate to manufacturers that people who enjoy jibes at Fundamentalists, machine politics, President Coolidge and the foes of contraception, are discriminating buyers of pianos, automobiles, perfume...
...Baumes Law has proved its effectiveness in New York, and if applied in other states it will undoubtedly meet with the same success," Professor T. N. Carver said to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday in discussing the law passed last year in New York, which provides that any man convicted of crime four times must serve a life sentence...
Those who hope for a more definite thought in undergraduate Yale are now considering the possibility of establishing a third college. Yet the success of such a movement presupposes the existence of a far more definite public opinion than is now present. Why not turn to the utilization of an influence already operative: perhaps the Fraternities...
...bombs in the cavern they had built, far under the Hudson River, to produce a volume of fumes equivalent to that which would be caused if an automobile burned up on its way through one of the two tubes. Object: to test the ventilating system, upon which the whole success of the tubes depended. Result: complete success. The fumes did not spread more than 50 feet; were swept out of the tunnel in less than two minutes. . . . The problem of ventilating 9,250-foot tubes was more complicated than it would appear. Blowing fresh...