Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling 35,000 copies a day, big delivery trucks were rolling in and out of the churchyard, and Allen Lane had become the most spectacular success in British publishing history. The price of Penguin books: 6d (12?) a copy; the profit on each...
...popular standards, and by her own, Edna Ferber has been a roaring success. Not only have her fiction and plays made her rich, they have brought her public honors: a Pulitzer Prize, an honorary degree from Columbia University, an invitation to the White House...
...light of such conscious success, her autobiography last week came as a surprise. Somewhere along the way, she confesses worriedly, "I lost my bearings and missed the way." In A Peculiar Treasure she aims to discover where...
From last year's Yardlings come two men, Jack Schwede and Charlie Brackett, who alternated in the Freshman games last year. While both men were handicapped by illness at different periods, they were largely responsible for the Samborski nine's success...
...public ought to be warned," Holmes asserted, "and the whole educational profession united against the naturally capable but untrained teacher whose very success keeps people from realizing how important it is that educational problems should be studied and that all teachers should study them...