Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...orphic language and with copybook maxims, they all attempt the peculiarly American feat of relating the arcane and the infinite with dollar-&-cents success. Some New Thought member organizations: the League for Larger Life; Unity (TIME, July 25); Divine Science; the Fellowship of Life Abundant...
Such a run on the history books is abnormal. For, despite the theatre's love of dressing up, historical plays are notoriously bad box office. But if the success of such plays as Oscar Wilde and Abe Lincoln in Illinois is due to competent writing and first-rate acting, the vogue for historical plays in general is really a commentary on the times. With war, fascism, strikes, depressions bearing down on all sides, playwrights and audiences alike tend to be confused, disturbed, jittery, and plays laid in the settled past offer a ready form of escape...
...Conquerors was an immediate critical success but sold badly. Living with his wife and two servants in a little apartment on the Rue du Bac - four rooms filled with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as he had been in Saïgon, met Indo-Chinese conspirators, Chinese revolutionists in his office, had so few contacts with the French literary world that even his closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal...
...student's athletic deficiencies and designed to turn him out a more co-ordinated muscular machine than he was before. For over a period of 20 years exhaustive work in this direction has been supervised by Assistant Director Norman W. Fradd whose announcement yesterday pointed to the unprecedented success of his study and emphasized the importance of his contribution to the development of "normal young...