Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking not in his usual vein of pious optimism but as though he fully realized that bitter national rivalries gravely threaten the Conference's chances of success, Scot MacDonald cried: "The world is being driven on a state of things which may well bring it face to face . . . with a time in which life revolts against hardships and the gains of the past are swept away for forces of despair. . . . How dark are the depths of misery and unsettlement which have still to be gone through? No one who has surveyed the facts . . . can doubt for a moment . . . that...
...serious, fundamental issue has since been forced to the attention of the country; the two parties have been able to agree to disagree, simply because they are agreed on what Madison termed "the only enduring source of faction--Property." The other answer is that until now the continued economic success of the capitalist system had offered the disinherited at least some hope of material betterment in the near future. But with the collapse of national and international capitalism, with the evidence that even the so-called Social-Service State cannot long be maintained, it becomes ever more obvious...
...President Roosevelt" with him were Nevada's Senator Pittman, Tennessee's Representative McReynolds and Texas' Ralph Morrison. Later in the week Delegate James Middleton Cox departed on the Olympic, declaring: "If the world is sick enough to have gained any sense, the Conference will be a success...
From the intestinal contents of fish he prepared a concentrated solution of the bacteriophage. Then he deliberately set about getting his own hands infected. He dipped them repeatedly in his phage solution, soon saw them healing up. Word of his success brought other skin sufferers to the Aquarium. One man said his affliction had resisted treatment for 20 years. His hands were so sore and scaly that he could not close them. After plunging them in the phage solution several times a week for three months he could grip a golf club. Last week Researcher Coates had 18 other favorable...
...format, reminiscent of the Nation in editorial policy, and emanating from Chicago. At present, in its seventh issue, Polity can boast of no more than sixteen pages, but it is distinguished by an alert point of view and a tincture of intelligent cynicism which should go far toward tempting success...