Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime Generalissimo Franco's lines, which more than half-encircled Madrid like a giant horseshoe, receded or advanced as alternating sallies of the Red Militia and the White Army met with setback or success. White troops, however, were saying confidently that "the fall of Madrid is only a matter of hours...
Sculptor Bartholdi quickly produced a number of sketches for his monument (now on exhibit among other Liberty documents at the Museum of the City of New York), but would have had little success with his project when he got back to France without the interest of Historian Edouard de Laboulaye, grandfather of the present French Ambassador to Washington. With the backing of Historian de Laboulaye and other prominent Frenchmen, francs were raised by popular subscription among French citizens to present the statue to the U. S. on its 100th Anniversary, the Philadelphia Exposition...
Sometimes writers compose a cycle of novels because they want to continue relating the adventures of characters whose first appearance has been a popular success. Sometimes, like Jules Remains with his multiple-volumed Men of Good Will, it is because they work on a scene too vast to be portrayed in a single book. But in his novels on the wild Fury family, James Hanley gives the impression of having caught a bear by the tail and of being dragged along by the creations his imagination has called into being. That impression, strongly conveyed by The Furys, published last year...
...however, can in no way be regarded as conclusive. Statistically speaking, the number, thirty-eight, is quite insignificant and the record is, as yet, woefully incomplete in the individual instance. Certain tendencies, and the inferences to be drawn therefrom mean, however, that the plan has been working with measurable success, sufficient, at least, to continue to accord it the highest hopes. Several more years will do much to stabilize the college record, then begin to demonstrate the record in the world. Then, and then only, will definite conclusions be warranted. Meanwhile the gradual fruition of this novel and daring educational...
...artillery and, in addition, to instill vague qualities of "leadership and discipline." Twenty hours is an extremely short time in which to teach a single subject, yet the R.O.T.C. instructors have assigned to this period a dozen complicated and lengthy activities. The result is pitiful dabbling in each and success in none...