Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must write you a letter of humble apology. The fact is, you have been made a victim of what the French call 'a mystification,' in other words a piece of undergraduate pleasantry. "There is no R. P. L. in Harvard University. . . . ". . . I have naturally attributed your present success to the mathematics you learned from me 35 years back. . . ." The President replied: "I am not in the least perturbed about the chime of bells because strictly between ourselves, I should much prefer to have a puppy dog or a baby named after me than one of those carillon effects...
...week that Germans may be so foolish as to start any kind of war in 1933. The longer Adolf Hitler waits, the keener his Reichswehr and Storm Troops become, the more arms the Fatherland secretly or openly acquires, the greater will be Germany's chance to strike with success. The danger last week was that Europe might not let Germany wait. In Paris, Warsaw, Prague and Brussels statesmen and strategists pondered anxiously what seemed to some of them the necessity of crushing Hitlerism by launching a "preventive war" against Germany before the Fatherland grows too strong...
...Although the goal was ?10,000,000 sterling, subscriptions were ?13,526,335. . . . There were 371 subscriptions ranging from ?100 to ?3,000. The great success of this loan virtually assures the cleaning up of all British blocked funds...
...years inventors have been trying to make the wind generate electricity, but with no commercial success. Three years ago Julius D. Madaras, Detroit Hungarian, persuaded six power concerns that he could succeed by adapting a Magnus rotor such as carried Anton Flettner's sailing vessel Baden-Baden from Hamburg to Manhattan (TIME, May 24, 1926) and lifted Harold Elstner Talbott Jr.'s hydroplane from Long Island waters in 1930. The utilitarians gave Designer Madaras $104,000 to build a demonstration rotor at West Burlington, N. J. Last week he showed them that it works...
...resounding system which made some kind of national recovery a necessity, against the growth of investment banking and the incubation of speculative enterprise. Indeed, there have been indications that they, alone of the mok-a-moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self gratulation, he ventured to inject a single sour note. His remark was commonplace enough, considered in the light of our own days...