Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva the Hoover formula for reduction (not limitation) of naval armaments. How would the Powers take to his plan? Carefully, secretly President Hoover had planted his armament reduction idea in Chief Delegate Gibson's mind during quiet White House evenings a month ago, when the Powers despaired of success at the forthcoming conference...
...other method is for the delegations frankly to explain what concessions they are in a position to make, to lay their cards on the table and to create a feeling of candor and harmony that will be conducive to the further success of our work...
Another important change prevents local winners from competing again until at least a year has elapsed since their first success. This means that only men who win a contest in their Freshman or Sophomore years will have a chance to win the prize a second time...
...stock. The novel was published last December by the Religious Book Department of Macmillan Co. It was reviewed in due course. Here and there a big-time reviewer was favorable but there was no concerted beating of the tomtoms such as heralds a volume bound for success of esteem and money...
Without tumult and tomtoms, Author Oliver has had literary success before now. His novel Fear, published two years ago. also by Macmillan's Religious Book Department, has achieved eleven printings. Victim and Victor has had one large printing since December. Both are on the same general theme: the healing power, spiritual, mental, physical, that may lie in the co-operative work of an understanding physician and an intelligent minister. The hero of Victim and Victor is a priest unfrocked for drunkenness. Author Oliver, a Doctor, was an unfrocked minister from 1923 to 1927, is now practising psychiatry and criminology...