Word: successful
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Harvard was chosen as a Russian Research Center by the Carnegie Foundation because of the facilities which it offered in many fields. It is beyond doubt that the work of this group will involve research in geography, but the success of that research will be undermined by the stoppage of much of the activity at the Institute...
...Lake Success last week, Chile filed charges against the Soviet Union with the U.N.; accused it of threatening world peace by instigating the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. The U.S. announced it would support the Chilean demand for a Security Council debate...
Technicolor's success was a typical Hollywood one-man show, by dour, dignified Dr. (of physics) Herbert T. Kalmus, 66, who plays table tennis, wears dark worsted suits, and keeps pretty much to himself...
Panics & Pestilence. The excitement of the stock flurry was mild compared to some that the rockbound, conservative Bank of New York has had since it was founded by Alexander Hamilton. It was the first bank in the then small (pop. 23,000) city of New York. Its immediate success brought two more banks-and worries-for Banker Hamilton. "'Tis impossible," he wrote in 1791, "but that three great banks in one city must raise such a mass of artificial credit as must endanger every one of them, and do harm in every view...
...takes a great deal to spoil such a masterpiece as "Don Giovanni," and Messrs. Pinza and Baccaloni sang and clowned their way through three hours of Mozart with great success. With unique genius "Don Giovanni" portrays the interplay of two most fundamental of life's forces: religion and sex. In the cataclysmic conclusion of the opera, when the statue accepts the arrogant nobleman's invitation to dinner, we realize that it can be only a supernatural power which will bring Don Giovanni to his doom. Behind the opera's dramatic end is one of the greatest portrayals of right...