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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: All congratulations for your definitive account of The Music Goes 'Round and Around [TIME, Jan. 20]. Especially astute was your perception of something missed, so far as I know, by all other commentators-the subtle connection existing between the success of that song and the incipient major trend in American music: the swing to "Swing.". . . PRESTON JUSTICE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...scurrying around through the midlands rallying small groups to his support. Concentrating last week on Ohio, he joyfully told diners at the 33rd annual McKinley Day banquet of the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland that a "cataclysmic division" was rending the Democracy which "will be fatal to the Democratic success in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hamlets | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...customary with great men to ask the secret of their success. The success of Kitty lies in the simple fact that he had no secret. His Shakspere was the writer of beautiful poetry and stirring drama, rather than the cabalistic soothsayer lesser minds have tried to make him. Not for Kittredge a mystical analysis on the knocking on the gate in Macbeth. To him this scene was merely another instance of the Bard's incomparable use of contrast in dramatic craftsmanship, and the unravelling of the mysteries of Elizabethan language coupled with an appreciation of Shakspere's poetry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPARTURE OF A SCHOLAR | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

...professor must have the disturbing sound of an obituary. Considering the vital role (shall we say "lead"?) he has played in Cambridge for so many years, this is inevitable. But George Lyman Kittredge is choosing merely rest, never inactivity. To him all Harvard men wish a continuance of the success he has always known and the hope that he may extend his already full seventy-five years into a true century of progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEPARTURE OF A SCHOLAR | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

...progress of the enterprise, including the maintenance of a graduate committee, and, more recently, the attachment of the membership charge to the term bill. With such cooperation on every side, the commuting students who campaigned so pugnaciously and vociferously last spring have no further requests to be answered. The success or failure of Dudley Hall is squarely up to students who do not live in Cambridge. An "Open House" week is now in progress, allowing students who are eligible for membership to become acquainted with an institution which eminently deserves and will amply repay their support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPEN HOUSE | 2/4/1936 | See Source »

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