Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joker. Then gradually it. dawned on them that the only joke was the President's deliberate error with the middle initials of Messrs. Baruch and Johnson, that he was stealing the show from the Senate munitions investigation. The correspondents began to babble questions and Franklin Roosevelt beamed at the success of his pleasantry...
...years following that dramatic first success, Watson toiled away in Boston, made improvements, took out patents, kept the books, while Bell went off on lecture tours to raise money. As a climax Lecturer Bell would let his audiences hear Watson singing "Do Not Trust Him, Gentle Lady" over the telephone. While Bell was abroad Watson took charge of their enterprises at home. In 1881 he retired, hungry for new experiences. He tried farming, married, became interested in marine motors. A one-room shop with two helpers grew into the Fore River Ship & Engine Co. which employed 4.000 men and built...
...been in the social welfare business for thousands of years, and he has not yet made a success of it; and there is no reason to think, from the evidence we have before us today, that our politicians are different in intelligence from those who destroyed former civilizations." Thus does Mr. Neilson point out the futility of entrusting our social welfare to politicians instead of training experts. "One of the strangest things to me," he says again, "is how we bow down before the dicta of physicists and close our mind to the findings of fundamental economists." But how different...
...secretary-treasurer of his class, an office since abolished with other upper-class posts, and during his Freshman year he was captain of the cross country team. His best showing on the track team has been made in the two-mile run where he has scored notable success...
This week's feature attraction is the screen adaptation of last year's musical comedy success "Music in the Air." The music and lyrics by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein have been retained and are the redeeming feature of an otherwise dull and tiresome operetta adaptation...