Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have tried to make out what stand the CRIMSON has taken on the Sino-Japanese situation, without, I must confess, any great degree of success. First you pooh-poohed the whole affair as nothing more than a far-Eastern circus and condescendingly advised everybody not to take what the newspapers say too seriously. This attitude I believe to be indefensible; the principles involved in the present situation are of enormous importance to the future of international relations, and no one with any intelligence can afford to sit smugly back and send forth occasional Bronx cheers...
...civilization is too eager in its cannonization of the pronouncements of specialists there is much of good in the contemporary tendency to examine all things with intensity. The medical profession furnishes many recognized examples of progress in the combat against disease, as in the case of tuberculosis. Whatever success has been attained has resulted from highly specialized study. The present day standards of living, too, are memorials of long studies which began much in the same way as Boston University has chosen to inaugurate a systematic and scholarly construction of defenses against depression...
...Opera packs up its scenery this week, prepares for its annual two weeks in Boston, the only city it will visit this year. To all appearances Chicago's home season has been more profitable this season than last. Attendance has been better. Artistically, the season has been an undisputed success...
...side for 53 years Robert Long had someone who filled that need. It was his wife Ella whom he married the day he went into lumber and who died four years ago after 53 years of partnership. "No one knows better than I the part she played in whatever success has come to my ventures in business," was a tribute he paid her at the height of his success. In 1925 the company's fiftieth anniversary was celebrated by a reception at the home of President Mack Barnabus Nelson. In the place of honor stood Chairman Long with Ella...
...William S. Scull Co., the newly appointed sales agents for the U. S., recently celebrated their 100th Anniversary in the wholesale coffee and tea business and were doubtless aware that many food experts believe there is big opportunity for some branded hot-drink (other than coffee) to rival the success of the many famed