Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their advance toward the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line" were reported "broken up" by bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...
...conceptions of International Order, without which there can be no lasting peace. ... It is the duty of His Majesty's Government at this time to be vigilant and to be firm. The decision is made. The Government must then go ahead. I most sincerely wish them success...
...Master Culbertson, still wary of green suits, called super-bridge a false alarm, pointed out that "most people do not even know how to handle four suits, and three-suit bridge has a better chance for success than five-suit, bridge." But newspaper editors, tiring of wire stories from all ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas...
...Marcilino Manuel Graca in Portugal, "Daddy" Grace is a tall, dark, long-haired religionist who believes in the orthodox Lord, preaches a Pentecostal faith with some refinements of his own invention. His headquarters and his respectable-looking home are in Washington, but in the past seven years his greatest success has been in Baltimore, fourth largest Negro city in the U. S. "Bishop" Grace calls his sect the "House of Prayer For All People,"* has claimed from 300,000 to 1,000,000 followers. In his 100 churches, pastors exhort the faithful for contributions, and during services, which lean heavily...
...trying to puzzle out which way to leap. Starting with a soothing lecture this morning, two feverish weeks will be spent by those Yardlings who have not made up their minds in which field to concentrate. At Harvard, this decision is made earlier than at most colleges, and the success of the system which provides for a longer period of concentration depends upon the assumption that Freshmen will choose wisely...