Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quotes an active politician. Tukio Ozaki, to the effect that martial success has impeded true progress. It has given Japan a sense of security, of a security which can be only temporary, and thus has removed the incentive to build carefully in politics, education, or industry. He divides the period of awakening and westerrization into two parts, the one extending through the Russian war and fraught with apt imitation: the other since that time and significant of decline...
Professor Alfred Zimmern, noted writer and educator, who has lectured a number of times in this country and spent the year 1922-23 as exchange professor at Cornell University, is Director of the school and responsible for its success. The work is sponsored by an American Executive Committee of which Mr. Owen D. Young is Chairman...
...help thinking after duly empting fate that perhaps the management made a wise move when it introduced the unknown into the equation. The main attraction, while not a total loss, is decidedly not a howling success. It is not taken from a widely known book or from a spectacular stage production, and the players, though well known, are not stars of the greatest magnitude. This is distinctly bad from the advertising point of view. The publicity manager being a man of some circumspection probably thought so too Hence the little experiment as to the exact truth contained in Barnum...
...touting Mussolini, the part played by tradition and sentiment in raising the hope of a new Empire, has been overlooked. It is only the extraordinary methods of the dictator that distinguish him from his predecessors. His ambitions for Italy are the same. And it is doubtful whether, despite his success as a popular colossus, his feet are not of the same clay as theirs...
Before 1914, when Italy was struggling to imitate her sister imperialists, the cry for a reincarnated Roman state followed each slight success. It followed the slow conquest of Tripoli, won after defeats at the hands of native troops, such as Caucasians have seldom undergone. It fed itself on the spirit of nationalism and a tariff to create industry. But up to the war, poverty remained the characteristic feature of the Italian state...