Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warburton, Joseph E. Wldener, never on good terms with Neighbor Beula Croker, protested loudly when she tried to raise money by subdividing her property and selling it in lots. In 1932 she worked hard for Roosevelt's election, for a time was county relief chairman, ran with no success for Congress. But all such activities were strictly extracurricular. For 15 years Mrs. Croker's life was spent almost entirely in court. She sued her agents, her attorneys, her creditors. She was sued by auctioneers for fees, by State governments for taxes, by her single-minded stepchildren...
...Living Realities." After asking whether the Five-Year Plan was a success Eugene Lyons answers: "For whom and for what? Certainly not for the socialist dream, which had been emptied of human meaning in the process, reduced to a mechanical formula of the state as a super-trust and the population as its helpless serfs. Certainly not for the individual worker, whose trade union had been absorbed by the state-employer, who was terrorized by medieval decrees, who had lost even the illusion of a share in regulating his own life. Certainly not for the revolutionary movement of the world...
Immortal Pattern? To others than a hypothetical da Vinci, The Yellow Cloth last week looked like a masterly success in the highly specialized field which Georges Braque took for his province 30 years ago and has never deserted. A big canvas, almost 5-by-4 ft., it hangs on the same wall with a Picasso Harlequin, a stormy Vlaminck meadow, a Matisse nude and a figure painting by Segonzac. All of these painters except Vlaminck are onetime winners of the Carnegie first prize. The Braque painting rather gained than lost by their company. Why this was true few critics...
...decoration; 4) light, photography, typography, cinema; 5) glass, clay, stone; 6) display, staging. A diploma from one of these courses will entitle a student to proceed with two years of architecture. Chicagoans, impressed by Director Moholy-Nagy's long-renowned versatility, energy and pleasant manners, thought the success of his school was a foregone conclusion. Tuition: $335 per year. Eligibility: high-school education, ability and character...
...best guest behavior, however, and tomahawked their hosts with great glee by taking their first victory of the series. No other Hanover eleven can over hope to earn as celebrated a triumph unless it be the one which broke the Yale Bowl jinx. The score of this initial Green success...