Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey and other big companies, this line is thought to have an auspicious future, especially since the gas will be sold on heat units instead of cubic feet (natural gas has nearly twice as many B. T.U. as manufactured gas). Apparently most sure of its success is Continental Construction Corp., the builder, for last week this concern announced that by the end of 1932 it will build a parallel line with 30-inch pipe, shoot natural gas from the South past Chicago, into New England...
President Hoover, attempting to estimate the national charity which will be needed next winter (see p. 8), last week announced: "There is a test, and a very positive test by which the success of [relief] can be determined. That is, the effect of distress upon public health. I have some years of experience in dealing with problems of distress and relief, and we have always tested the efficacy of relief by the reflex in public health...
...story behind his success is one which bald, smiling School Builder Betelle, eschewing the characteristic reticence of most successful architects, takes pleasure in reciting. Born to a disadvantaged family in Wilmington, Del. 52 years ago, he got his early training in a Philadelphia drafting room. In 1900 he went to Manhattan to work for famed Cass Gilbert. He saved his money, worked hard, went abroad in 1905. Five years later he formed a partnership with Ernest F. Guilbert, moved to a small office in Newark. They plugged along until 1916, when Mr. Guilbert died. Builder Betelle went...
...Osler's "two greatest contributions to medicine, the most important being the first medical clinic [Johns Hopkins'] worthy of the name in any English- speaking country, and the other the publication in 1892 of his text-book [Practice of Medicine] presenting with rare literary skill and unexampled success the principles and practice of medicine adequately and completely for the first time in English after the great revolutionary changes brought about by modern bacteriology...
...failed to blow for nearly all of 14 days of the National Glider Association's second annual meet which ended last week. Nearly 30 gliding and soaring craft (20 of them the famed Franklin type) were assembled for the meet. For ten days the pilots tried with little success to make sustained flights. Then came a breeze worthy of the name. J. H. ("Bud") Stickler of Manhattan, who had won his license only the week before, took off from South Mountain and did not return for 7 hr. 28 min. Later Albert S. Hastings, last year's record...