Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traut and consultants tried this & that to bring her out of the stupor-blood transfusions, serums, iodine injections, typhoid vaccine, colloidal sulphur, neoarsphenamine, artificial fevers. All without real success...
Somewhere between playing the little prince to John Barrymore's Richard III and her outstanding comic success in Springtime for Henry, Helen Chandler managed to make herself one of the U. S. Stage's more attractive and plausible ingenues...
...have two promising new infielders, a capable pitching staff headed by Mel Harder and the best outfield in the league. The Boston Red Sox, still in the process of rebuilding, are likely to get into the first division. The prospects of the Philadelphia Athletics will depend largely on the success of 72-year-old Manager Connie Mack's experiment of turning his star first-baseman. Jimmy Foxx, into a catcher. Probable tail-enders: the aging Senators, the dispirited St. Louis Browns, the consistently feeble Chicago White...
Also in his first year Adolph Ochs took another bold step which was significantly prophetic. He rejected $150.000 worth of advertising-enough to ensure the Times's success-which had been offered by the Tammany-controlled city government, because he feared even the appearance of evil. Less than four years after his arrival in Manhattan the Times was out of debt. In the next 38 years it amassed a daily circulation...
Begun last year with a grant of ton scholarships to students from the Middle Western states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, the plan was pronounced a success by Mr. Conant after examining the records of these men during the first semester. The belief is reasonable that next year's students from Kentucky and Iowa will do equally satisfactory work at Harvard. The success is due in large measure to the ample size of these awards. Starting from $200 TO $1000, according to the financial condition of the recipients, they are renewable throughout the college career...