Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recognition of Russia is a vital factor in the success of the NRA. The Recovery Act is now limping along because of its inability to revive the capital goods industries. If the United States recognizes Russia, a ready and expanding market for machinery and building materials will be opened. For this reason alone, Russia should be recognized...
Friendship brings an understudy part; luck brings the big chance. She is a tremendous success--the usual Hollywood thing--with banks of flowers, heaps of sequins, trays of importunate little cards. But not one of the little cards has the right name engraved on it, for there is no right name; there isn't anybody at all that matters. Little Eva, with her name in electric lights, knows now that success is just an abstract noun. It isn't what she dreamed of back in Vermont. It doesn't mean a thing. Sunt rerum lacrimae. Finis...
...read good books. At present all but a few hundred students at Harvard hear good music only at concerts. There is great need of a collection of victrola records and music, with rooms where they might be used. If it is fair to judge by the success of the experiments in Lowell and Leverett, the popularity of such a library would more than justify the cost...
Last night the aboriginal inhabitants of Cambridge and the nerveless Freshmen of Wigglesworth Hall had the somewhat dubious pleasure of hearing a highly vocal NRA demonstration. From the standpoint of noise produced it was a roaring--not to say deafening--success, and the inclusion of the bands...
Thirteen leading scientists have been appointed by the Board of Overseers to four committees which will visit the Engineering School, and three other scientific departments. The members have been chosen "because of their interest in the success and usefulness of the department to be visited...