Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marries the wrong man. In 1900 Edna was a small-town blonde, a frontporch girl. In 1937 she is white-haired and miserable in the luxury of a New York penthouse. Reason: she jilted the simple-hearted brakeman who loved her for an ambitious young lawyer who loved success...
...difficult as balancing the U. S. budget is the task of devising cinema plots in which opera stars may be induced to perform less self-consciously than opera stars. Last week two of Hollywood's attempts to skirt this problem appeared, with varying success...
There is another side to the picture. The Japanese policy will probably be one of indirect control of China, through puppet governments, in an effort to avoid the difficulty just mentioned. Success in such a policy will require inexhaustible forbearance and finesse, more than can be expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl...
...Greninger is at present studying Martensite, one of the hardening constituents of steel. Although a great deal of work has been done on this problem, very few fundamental facts are as yet known. However, Dr. Greninger is attacking the problem with great success, as the first step in a new extended study of the transformations which occur during the heat treatment of steel...
...excess of 800,000 copies, and 500,000 in European nations. The new magazine, titled "Rising Tide," conveys the message of modern Christianity, as exemplified in the Oxford Group, to men and women in this country and abroad. The Group here attempts to popularize and demonstrate, apparently with success, Christian doctrines for the solution of current industrial and national problems...