Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Warren. The second week of R. F. C gold buying abroad (to reduce the gold value of the dollar) had brought noteworthy results. It had driven the value of the dollar down, the price of sterling up from $4.78 to over $5 (to $5.16 at one time). This success was almost more than bargained for. It started a flight from the depreciating dollar. Foreigners called home their dollar balances, Americans rushed to exchange dollars for foreign money. At one time the exchange value of the dollar actually fell below the domestic value (set by the R. F. C. gold...
...wild, either kicking up dirt harmlessly below the fort or shrieking off into Havana's residential district thousands of yards beyond with most embarrassing results. But soon they dropped shell after shell into the fort. With cannon, anti-aircraft and machine guns the rebels replied, scored their greatest success by smashing a field gun on Burro Hill, mile and a half away, with two shots from a little one-pounder...
...feel," continued Devens, "that Coach Mitchell's coaching, together with that of Herb Pennock and Cy Perkins of the New York Yankees, have been the chief factor in whatever pitching success I have enjoyed thus...
...down to a relatively small scale. Hollywood should be allowed to handle all the big shows, and the simple plots should be left to the stage. One's personality is lost in the big theatre with a large audience, for contact with the audience, which is essential to the success of a play, is so easy to lose. Sam Harris' production, 'As Thousands Cheer,' is, to my mind, the nearest approach to this desirable new formula, and I think it should be followed. The theater is a place where people should go to think as well as be amused...
Anyhow here's how 'Lis: At dinner today the girls at our table decided to write to somebody 'way off somewhere and see which of us has the most success...