Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines after the Argonne offensive with a hole in his neck and a piece of shrapnel in his lung, Sergeant DeWitt Wallace of the 35th U. S.. Infantry perfected his plans for a magazine of condensed reprints culled from all the publications on the market. The tremendous success of this notion of a wounded soldier in 1918 was made manifest this week by a unique and thoroughgoing account of Reader's Digest published in FORTUNE...
...Such success was made possible by the original willingness of U. S. magazines to grant Publisher Wallace reprint rights in return for a Readers Digest credit line. However, Publisher Wallace began to pay something for his material in money as well as publicity as soon as he began to make some for himself...
Last week U. S. readers of the Illustrated London News were apprised of Dr. Thoma's success in being the first man to hypnotize a chimpanzee. Not wishing to waste time on aloof or doltish subjects...
...thigh (see cuts). In this "torpid condition" he remained for seven minutes-a spectacle at which Biologist Huxley goggled in utter astonishment. Dr. Thoma had no way of ascertaining what was going on in Peter's subconscious mind during the experiment, but smilingly declared: ''This initial success with the chimpanzee fills me with optimism...
...like soup even for an ermine swimming pool, she is not bringing any fresh arguments to bear on the long-mooted question of superiority be tween stage and screen. And when her radical, playwriting friend (Richard Kendrick), having decided after a Broad way success to go West and write for and not about the masses, tells Terry that the theatre is an obsolete art form which is not equipped to keep its devotees' bodies or spirits alive, he has only echoed the standard rebuttal of an old debate...