Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Years ago an astounding character named Garabed Bishirgian emerged from Armenia to gamble in rugs, caviar, tin and finally pepper with such success that he was known as the "Pepper King," threw parties which were the awe of London and owned a model farm in Surrey on which he raised 600 thoroughbred pigs even fatter and greasier than their owner. In 1935 "Pepper King" Bishirgian joined with his friend "Tin King" John Henry Charles Ernest Howeson in an attempt to corner the pepper market. When a bumper crop threatened their corner, they resorted to a fraudulent stock issue which brought...
Roared Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago, editor of A.M.A. publications and spokesman for medical orthodoxy: "The tradition of medicine since the earliest times has been one of service-a service dependent for its success in the curing of disease on mutual responsibility between the doctor and his patient. The American Medical Association has established principles which must govern this relationship between doctor and patient. The purpose of these principles is to maintain for the public the highest possible quality of medical service. As long as human beings are themselves not standardized it will not be possible to provide them with...
...knew something of your meeting, he had been for some time observing the courses of the doctor necessarily, meaning (of course you know what he meant) that he was not far removed from constantly keeping up the features of the profession, and he wished you success as to your undertaking, and (if I use his exact words) he hoped that you would find a way to cooperate with him in such method as you would jointly find would be to the service of the helpless and afflicted within such province as you felt government should undertake. I deliver the message...
...Wildcatter (Universal): Some of New Universal's unknown actors in one of New Universal's rigidly wholesome and unimportant success dramas-showing how a wildcat oil promoter is fooled by and then fools the big companies who are trying to put him out of business...
...inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...