Word: successful
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...with an educational institution. They must choose one who has no claims to scholarship along any line, one who knows nothing of ancient or modern languages and cultures, nothing about the vast realms of modern science, nothing about the intricacies of research, or even about the qualifications making for success in teaching. If Columbia can commit this absurdity, why not every other university in the land? No longer are educators to strive to grow in breadth and wisdom in order that they may be called to fill the seats of the mighty in education. Theirs is to labor in obscurity...
After seven weeks of howling success on the air, radio's newest star is disgusted. He meets the public so often now that he has to take a bath every two weeks-twice as often as he used to. His reward is a mere 25 biscuits a show-mouse-bait to a full-grown, well-to-do male collie like "Lassie" (real name...
Hedda's Whoppers. It has been suggested that, for all Hedda's slash & dash, her wild but indisputable charm and her whizzing success at her job, the head beneath the hats is something of an air pocket. In her very first column, she perpetrated a lulu to the effect that Greta Garbo, who was soon, she said, to marry Leopold Stokowski, had undergone inspection by Stokowski's patrician Philadelphia relatives. Stokowski has no patrician Philadelphia relatives. A rudimentary instinct for checking sources would have spared Hedda that blooper...
Senate Republicans said they would press a special investigation resolution, but their chances for success appeared dimmer hour by hour...
...LAKE SUCCESS, July 24--Hopes for a compromise solution of the Balkan problem faded today when Russia turned down French proposals intended to "soften" the American plan for a powerful semi-permanent commission in the Halkans...