Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, gentle, tweedy, eminently useful citizen, noted for his personal integrity, his whole-souled devotion to his job and to his chief Harry Hopkins. Last week it became Aubrey Williams' duty to see that other U. S. youngsters should not have to follow his own rocky road to success...
...yearly competition of amateur groups sponsored by conservative Drama League (a stuffy organization of "drama enthusiasts")-won it easily-were awarded the Samuel French Trophy and $50-and next morning got headlines in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph's (Hearst) theatre page. A few days later, flushed by the success of their prizewinner, the same group presented Waiting for Lefty in a local theatre which seats slightly over 600 persons. The performance was S.R.O., and the box-office receipts showed over 900 paid admissions. The play was performed exactly as produced in New York except for damns instead of goddamns...
...Lindbergh went secretly to work there as a biomechanical assistant to Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel. Dr. Carrel was trying to keep human organs alive for long periods so that physiologists could study their reactions piecemeal. For more than 100 years physiologists had tried to do so, with no real success, ever since Frenchman Julien-Jean-Cesar Legallois (1770-1814) predicted: "If one could substitute for the heart a kind of injection ... of arterial blood, either natural or artificially made . . . one would succeed easily in maintaining alive indefinitely any part of the body." But like many an experimenter before...
...though he thinks with vigorous independence about educational problems, he is not primarily a theorist. The New Plan, as he has often pointed out, is the work of many minds. His genius lies in possessing the courage and vision to effect new plans, the ability to administer them to success. As yet he has no political tie-ups, though he has served on the Chicago Regional Committee of the National Labor Relations Board, chair-manned numerous long-named public commissions...
...years, when large numbers followed the Northern troops despite the efforts of officers to discourage them, were used at first as laborers, were eventually trained and employed as troops. Southerners, if they penetrate so deeply into Du Bois's history, may quarrel with his account of the success of the former slaves in battle, as well as with his version of the softening Southern attitude toward slaves during the war, but they must face his facts that Lee himself, just before his final surrender, was contemplating using Negro troops, that Southern leaders planned to grant slaves their freedom...