Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until recently Mr. Smith served Harvard as a member of the Corporation and a director of the Alumni Association, in both of which positions he worked capably and tirelessly. His amazing grasp of both international politics and finance was used with great success after the War when President Wilson appointed him financial adviser to the American Mission at the Paris Peace Conference; and still more strikingly when in 1924 he unraveled the financial tangle in Hungary as High Commissioner appointed by the League...
Wallace H. Cox, Edwin G. Davis, Jr., and John C. Rowley, Jr., the Freshman swordsmen who have contributed largely to the success of the '38 team in defeating all comers, may also participate...
...that means censorship, passion, and prejudice and the beginning of an academic lynch law. We have too little freedom in our universities now; some of them, like the University of Pittsburgh are unfit for any intellectually honest teacher and have sold out to big business. To permit the success of these efforts to ferret out so-called radicals with the students or teachers would be treason to the entire teaching profession. It is as base as it is un-American. Harvard, which, under Lowell, upheld the tradition of academic freedom during the World War better than any other university, will...
...George Jean Nathan, Ernest Boyd, Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell & Eugene O'Neill availed themselves of the "out" they had wisely prepared in the first issue of The American Spectator, literary and critical review (TIME, Oct. 31, 1932). The magazine, resembling a monthly newspaper, had made a modest success. Circulation (claimed) reached 30,000-about 10,000 more than was needed to break even. Advertising income was fairly good. All told, the project cleared about $70 a year for each of the editors, which was more than they had expected but not enough to anchor their wavering interest...
...these eight short stories, three were included in Author Feuchtwanger's lengthy novel, Success (1930); none was written later than seven years ago. Though not hot off the griddle, they are nevertheless served up with such neatness and dispatch that their taste is still fresh. Exile Feuchtwanger (Power, The Ugly Duchess, Josephus) thus explains their publication: "When at the beginning of 1933 my home in Berlin was searched by the National Socialists and nearly all my manuscripts, as well as those entrusted to me by friends in other countries, were destroyed, I thought the time had come to collect...