Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, fabricated and untruthful, charges of a miserable, petty, partisan character have been persistently circulated against him by a very small clique of disappointed office-seekers, at least one of them closely associated with the Hoover Administration. . . . He has discharged his duties with admirable ability, fidelity and success. . . . "Pending the determination of whether or not it will be possible to secure acceptance of the directorship of the bureau by a man of Dr. Thorp's calibre and his confirmation at the hands of the Senate. I reserve consideration of my own future relation to the department...
...Failed. It is not news when a U. S. citizen fails in college and later achieves great success at his chosen profession. In crowded Japan where university graduates sprout like weeds and jobs are sparse, it is news indeed. Sweating over their studies, Japanese students remember that Koki Hirota was the man who failed in his examinations for the diplomatic service only to become one of Japan's most effective Foreign Ministers. He was born in Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu 56 years ago. Kyushu is as solidly conservative as Maine. As a sober little schoolboy Koki Hirota...
...show Linda Fayne (Constance Cummings) decides to reach star dom by plaguing the show's composer, Victor Banki (Paul Lukas), into writing a song especially for her. So charmingly does she plague that she gets Victor in stead. Marriage to Victor brings her no nearer to success on the stage, and she is ready to give up her ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby. Delivered of a baby, Linda gives up singing for dancing, shoots overnight to stardom. A few good hits behind her, and she falls in love...
...while the remainder should become centers, not of pedagogy as traditionally conceived, but of knowledge and thought." Besides this body blow, the Commission took a savage poke at modern pedagogy's right arm, the intelligence test. What test scores reveal, the Commission did not know. For predicting vocational success. formulating social and educational policies, such tests are "patently limited," "utterly inadequate," "meaningless." Best-known of the authors of these heresies is American Historical Association's retiring President Charles Austin Beard, 59, famed liberal historian (The Rise of American Civilization, with his wife) and onetime Columbia government professor...
...brother-in-law, Arnold de Saint-Sauveur; Eduard Benes, who, as Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister, takes second place to no one in the vocal support he lends to the League of Nations; teresting to note in view of later facts, very heavy financial contributors to Hitler's political success. Political France and political Germany may be at constant swords' points, the Polish corridor may inflame the Nazis, France may quiver at her lack of "security" from another northern invasion--but the lion and the lamb never lie down together with more good followship than these French, German, Czech, and Polish...