Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical experience of American methods thus acquired will be a lever in raising the living standards of this country. No one looking at Dnieprostroy can doubt the Soviet Union's success in becoming a great industrial nation...
...championship at the last minute again this year but Helen Moody decided not to. She stayed in Paris, "to study painting." The U. S. L. T. A., which had paid her expenses abroad to play at Wimbledon, expecting she would return to make the U. S. championship a financial success, was piqued. There were reports that if Mrs. Moody went abroad again next year she would pay her own way. Meanwhile, on the green blanket of turf that lies between the railroad tracks and the neat suburban cottages of Forest Hills, galleries slimmer than they have been for the last...
...Proost") was born in Paris in 1871, son of a well-to-do bourgeois doctor and his Jewish wife. Delicate and sensitive from birth, he suffered all his life from asthma. From a very early age he was intellectually and socially ambitious, took himself with a seriousness which only success can excuse. His poor health did not prevent his taking his degree and serving his military service. His father wanted him to be a diplomat, but he postponed the issue by dabbling at the Sorbonne. Meeting with Henri Bergson influenced his decision on a literary career...
Observers who expected the Xth Olympiad* of the Modern Era to be a failure because of Depression, international hard-feeling or Los Angeles' promotion methods were vastly disappointed last week. The Xth Olympiad was a gorgeous, unprecedented success. More people attended the Games than ever before (510,000 through last week). The athletes (1,740), better housed than ever, enjoyed themselves more than hitherto. In actual competition, it began to look last week as though the Xth Olympiad might be too much of a success: in almost every race, runners broke Olympic records. This was not entirely because the runners...
...modeling life of a girl is about four years. The Guild's success will depend on its ability to find new girls eventually to displace its present members, to give artists what they want...