Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Improved service and facilities, such as streamlining and airconditioning, have brought only "modest" success. Principal remaining remedy is reduction of fare...
...venture was scarcely expected to rival the success of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe which, before its current tour is over, may well gross $1,000,000 (TIME, Oct. 21). But the fact that Martha Graham was courageous and confident enough to want to face audiences of plain people, unbiased by the adoring intellectuals who hail her as a priestess, gave a fresh importance to the dance she represents...
...Lehman Brothers and Lazard Freres, showed a decline of only 1% in net asset value in the last six years against the average trust record of 33%. General American is one of the few big trusts that has called the stockmarket's major turns with any real success...
...Rothney of the Graduate School of Education yesterday published his opinion, based on investigations in three Massachusetts towns, that a child's future success in life can be judged by his first year in primary school. Those students who, at the age of six, showed qualities of leadership, good behavior, concentration, intelligence and high scholastic standing, Dr. Rothney maintains, are now holding jobs, while those displaying a lack of these attributes are among the ranks of the unemployed. The latitude of this statement, valuable as the direction of the research obviously is, leaves ample room for legitimate doubts and questions...
...approximate age of six, graduating in June 1934. In other words they have been "seeking their own way in the world" for a scant year and a half, yet Dr. Rothney asserts confidently that their records up to the present time vindicate his theory. Just why success in life should depend on a boy's employment or non-employment within two years of graduating from high school, Dr. Rothney did not bother to explain...