Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most two dozen British planes attack the German naval bases at Wilhelms-haven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel with only minor success; perhaps half that many attack Helgoland Bight, most of them never to return...
Lupien, in jumping from Soldiers Field to Scranton in the Class A Eastern loop, took a man sized leap, and this makes the success of his season's play all the more pleasing to his Fenway Park bosses...
Drunk with the new wine, success, the Chinese tried another daring thrust. In broad daylight eight bombers flew 450 miles from Chungking to Hankow, where they bombed the Japanese air base. They claimed to have destroyed 50 out of 180 Japanese planes, to have returned intact. Japanese admitted that bombs had hit stores of gasoline at their air base, "causing explosions that rocked the city...
...idea born in Chicago, cradle of the slot machine, is a whopping success in Illinois. Listeners play it with Mu$1co cards, distributed each week by Kroger and National Tea Co. groceries in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single...
...Agha's success formula is to start a publishing fad, develop another before its popularity has waned. First in the U. S. was he to drop capital letters from a magazine's typography, to "bleed" illustrations to a page's edge. Other dodges of his: asymmetric layouts, wide white margins ("space for your laundry list"), photographs with cockeyed perspective. Says he of his devices: "Their effectiveness begins to wear off when everybody does it. . . . If you are different, you are all right." In a field notorious for its vicious circle of mutual imitation, Agha usually manages...