Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangely rare in real life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success a financial coup d'etat in the tobacco business...
...face-licking meekness of a lion named Duke who fell in love with two tigresses named Venus and Ruth almost spoiled Clyde Beatty's act but did not change the rule. Lions hate tigers. Tigers hate lions. On such feline passions rest the success and troubles of Clyde Beatty, 28, most famed U. S. animal trainer...
...success of the tour pointed up for this week's Pittsburgh meeting of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association old talk about an open tennis tournament. With crack players like Vines, Tilden, Richards, Barnes, Cochet and Nusslein in professional ranks, many tennis enthusiasts hold that the only real test of tennis supremacy would be a tournament comprised of amateurs and professionals. Much red tape between the U. S. L. T. A. and the International Lawn Tennis Federation would have to be cut before a U. S. open could be sanctioned. Even its most optimistic advocates last week...
...excellent tutor in Mathematics is of little avail to a man whose interest is primarily in Biology or English, concentrating in Mathematics because Math A was his easiest course during his Freshman year. When the problem of the "uninterested tutee" is one of the chief obstacles to the success of the tutorial system, it is pennywise and pound-foolish to lavish large sums on tutorial work in the last three years while grudging the comparatively small amount necessary to ensure the success of that work by guiding Freshmen to a proper choice of concentration field...
...obviously be accomplished under a form of government that is, in essence, dictatorial, for any other sort is too unwieldy to avert the danger which now threatens. Unfortunately, the balance in Austria is so even that neither the Viennese socialists nor the Heimwehr can feel sure of any permanent success. Since this is the case, the cause of the Nazis has been considerably strengthened, and if a purely nominal Fascist government is established, it is difficult to see just what the powers can do about it--except to utilize it as a safety valve which may divert the local magnesium...