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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Chance Success? On his way to Geneva, Mr. Stimson had conferred in Paris with Premier Andre Tardieu. Because France goes to the polls next month and the U. S. election looms, these two statesmen found it best to make no statement of what they told each other to their publics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stimson Musee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party by bumbling Party Leader Stanley Baldwin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chamberlain's Budget | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...methods of psychology in criminology. Armand Lescault, a 17 year old boy who last year murdered a policeman, is to have twenty years of personal scientific training and observation, at the end of which time he should be ready to re-enter the world as a useful citizen. The success of the experiment depends on the spirit in which it was conceived and the thoroughness with which it is to be carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW CRIMINOLOGY | 4/22/1932 | See Source »

...remained. He gave up Cubism for Dadaism, Dadaism for Surrealism, finally gave up painting almost entirely for photography. His Surrealist shots of bits of landscape, nudes, egg beaters and pieces of wire have caught the fancy of French advertisers. Besides portraits of his friends, he has become financially success ful as a commercial photographer. Last week he wrote from Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rayograms | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...maturer years were not without event. On one occasion, impressed with the success of Cecil Sharp and others in collecting folk songs and music in the fastnesses of Kentucky, the Carolinas and Tennessee, he set out in a buggy, equipped with music paper, a tuning fork and a phonographic recording machine, to collect the folk songs of his home State. Iowa. After a long ride he reached a farm where the daughter of the house consented to sing. He sat with the girl's mother on the piazza, waiting. The silence grew expectant. At last Aggie began to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Fish | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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