Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This dance was only a small success, and teas in the other Houses were not overcrowded. The expense involved in all cases scarcely warranted the results, for such indifference accomplishes little. Better results could easily be obtained by a measure of cooperation among the Houses...
...knowledge for the injection of knowledge by the lecture system. But there are inevitable disadvantages. The informal English university system, which consists, as Mr. Stephen Leacock puts it, by having a small group of students sit down with an instructor and smoke at each other, requires for its success an adequate supply of good tutors. When you add the requirement of tutor-specialists you reduce the available supply of fine leadership still further...
...Rome has never been violated by anti-Fascist planes. I shall be the first, I said to myself. . . . My death, however undesired by me personally who have so many things to do, could but add to the success of my flight. All danger lies in my return flight. I shall not die before I have delivered my 400,000 leaflets and then they will be all the better recommended...
...useful person to shrewd publishers is a book-censor. Sure as death & taxes, a guilty volume will be publicized, will sell widely thereafter, openly or 'legged. Such success would be repugnant to Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, who by purchasing Cosmopolitan Book Corp. last month jumped into the first rank of their trade (TIME, Oct. 5). Under their imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities...
...finally she gave in, married him. At first they had a grand time, especially when Tim's stories had begun to make enough so that they could travel. But from the day his God's Own Country (Main Street) became a best seller dated all of Susan's troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further bamboozled himself by drinking. Susan was always technically faithful but Tim gave her many a cause for anxious jealousy. Once she gave a wedding anniversary party in London; Tim got drunk and disgraced her. Once he brought a psychoanalyst into her room...