Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emotion, not facts, carried the Prime Minister to magnificent success in the Abdication Crisis, and last week Intervener Stephenson explained his actions entirely in terms of most convincing British emotion. "I had not an ounce of respect left for Mrs. Simpson," he sturdily declared. "It was just that I was so much moved by the words of His late Majesty's broadcast...
...Armies of Tin Soldiers!" Equally brimming with Spanish passion last week in Madrid was its Defense Junta head, bald General Jose Miaja who at first tried to keep his Red Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja...
Believing that the reason for the success of the Yale inter-college athletic system rests in the distinction made between informality and lack of organization, the report on Harvard athletics by the Student Council stressed the need for full-time director and salaried supervisors and managers, which Yale...
Four members of the Committee have been selected to investigate the possibilities of success for the plan. They are William C. Coleman, Jr., Thomas V. Healey, Jr., Frederick Holdsworth, Jr., and Mercer...
Just three and a half decades ago His Majesty the German Emperor, Wilhelm 11, bestowed upon the President and Fellows of Harvard College a matchless collection of casts of German sculpture. It was this Imperial gift that assured the Germanic Association, founded only the previous year, the success of its aspiration to create in America a monument to German culture. A few years later Adolphus Busch donated the money to build, and Professor Bestelmeyer of Munich designed, the present Germanic Museum...