Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found that he was in the hands of the man the Gang had selected as his manager. He not only refused to leave his farm, he refused to permit the telegraph company to run a wire to his farm home: he refused, in short, the highest measure of success. And history will be interested in why he refused. Three years later, did not this same man, Stone, shout and wave at his cohorts in State convention that "I am in favor of taking the Philippines, I am in favor of taking everything in sight...
...Wall Street whispered that I. T. & T. was licked, Wall Street did not know Sosthenes Behn. To his shrewd daring and persistent battling I. T. & T. owed its spectacular soar to success. He was now to prove himself a bad-weather pilot of extraordinary ability. He hacked expenses, pruned salaries, wrote down assets. With his able brother, Hernand, he worked furiously to increase the efficiency of Mackay-Postal, built five new radio stations on the Atlantic Coast alone. When the storm began to clear it was apparent that Sosthenes Behn had not only braced his towering electrical companies to stand...
...versus Slumber," a playlet. Although every attempt has been made to keep this year's Red Book as short as possible, it is several pages longer than last year's issue due to the size of the Freshman Class. It is expected that the book will be a financial success if all the subscriptions which have been pledged are paid...
...that the poor boy of real ability would still be able to gain entrance under an intelligent system of limitation. They should remember, too, that many applicants, particularly those who come from families without intellectual background, now enter the liberal arts college hoping thereby to improve their chances of success in business, not realizing that success in business, not realizing that such a college will give them little practical training
Gandhi's critie rejoices at Bernard Shaw's remark that the success of the Bolsheviks is due to their grasp of communism and capitalism. Perhaps the communists know it all. I would advise my opponent, however, not to take Mr. Shaw too seriously, for the same gentleman is reported to have said recently that not unless all living communists are killed can communism become a reality. Auup S. Dhillon