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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might recall that in that question, as well as in the all-important one about the . veto power, the Cuban delegation was the champion of the opposition. In San Francisco, Ambassador Belt's impassionate appeal, and at Lake Success Professor Dihigo's logical arguments, were crushed under the steamroller tactics of the all-powerful U.S. delegation, with the result that you now regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Since the war (in which he served as an Air Forces intelligence captain), he has directed three more-Annie Get Your Gun, Happy Birthday and John Loves Mary-all still running (next chore: directing Rodgers & Hammerstein's Tales of the South Pacific"). Josh deprecates his chain-explosion of successes: "It's hard to break in, but the moment you've had a success everybody wants you. There just aren't enough directors to go around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...step aside. An easy talker, with a good memory for faces and names, new President Wilson is an impressive example of copybook maxims put into practice. "If you know what you're fitted to do and do it well," he once said, "your life will be a success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Career Man | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Success. With formal questioning and informal ("Tell me about yourself") interviews, the whole S.R.I, test takes only 40 minutes. Analyzers then take about five hours to weigh the answers "blind" (they never see the subject) and predict how the subject will do in a certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: A Yardstick for Bosses | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Economy is one of the new proposal's strongest aspects. By building around Memorial Hall, the Committee evidently intends to combine various services and therefore to save money, and its cost figure would seem to indicate success. If the entire plan--looked at best as a "package"--can really be done for $750,000 the Committee will indeed have produced a much-desired miracle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toward a Memorial | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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