Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago every other ship which docked in New York Harbor carried rats. Now only one out of twelve ships entering all U. S. harbors carries rats. Because rats harbor fleas which transmit dreadful bubonic plague to human beings. Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., upon noting the success of rat elimination aboard ships, last week happily announced that the danger of plague ever again reaching the U. S. from abroad is "almost eliminated...
History. Only during the last decade, after engineers helped doctors control artificial fevers by means of electricity or hot air, has the art of fever therapy matured. Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means of inoculations of malaria germs. For this he received a Nobel Prize in 1927. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg is supposed to have caught the idea of malaria therapy from an Odessan named Rozenblum. Yet U. S. slave owners used to send their syphilitics to malarial swamps where, for some then...
...were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and girls. MacDonald told his new friends that he was the New England middleweight amateur boxing champion.- Morgan said he was a boxer too. A quick success with the girls, the pair persuaded a shy young appointee to Annapolis (whose name was withheld by the police last week) to let them use his family's Culver City house for a "party." Since his family was away on a vacation and he was promised a pleasant time...
...England (TIME, Sept. 25. 1933) threatened to ruin London's four biggest dailies"the Express, Herald, and Mail and News Chronicle- until a truce was struck. The current rebirth of the idea among U. S. newspapers was no accident. Two years ago Publisher David Stern revived it with success for his New York Post and Philadelphia Record...
...reviews for the august London Times Literary Supplement, and still does. When she and her husband, Leonard Woolf, founded the Hogarth Press (1917), they began by publishing limited editions of such promising newcomers as Katherine Mansfield. John Middleton Murry, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster; went on to commercial success and the most promising writer of them all, herself. Her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), a conventional, competent piece, was well received in spite of the War. The pages of her second (Night and Day) now seem browned at the edges. In 1921 she cut loose from convention, published...