Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States has been built upon the bifurcation of an economic system which emphasizes acquisitiveness and a religion which makes every man his brother's keeper. In the process of conquest of a land of milk and honey the mores and working rules of society were those that gave success to the man who could best look after himself. But the social conscience, the human sympathy, Christian spirit, or whatever you choose to call it, has always been present, and in the last few decades has become an authoritative voice, urging the responsibility of all for all. Things like social...
During his 20-year tenure as dean, Harvard became the nation's leader in training men for teaching and government service. While this program was carving out the success that Dean Pound had worked for, the enrollment doubled, remaining at 1500 from the immediate postwar period throughout his deanship. In 1936 he became a University Professor and added undergraduate courses to his schedule...
...Rose's nightclub success only made his pinwheel imagination whir faster. Why not stage a circus in a Broadway theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
...heard programs makes its bow this week over a big network. The Author Meets the Critics, after a record-breaking tryout period, will get the full glamor production over NBC. But it will be pretty much the same program that New York audiences have been discussing for six years. Success in the big time is a personal triumph for Author's persevering 32-year-old producer, Martin Stone, who claims: "This thing would have died a long time ago if I hadn't been an amateur...
Prominent witches such as Isobel Gowdie were often members of an organized "coven" of sorcerers-men & women who assembled regularly in barren places under the direction of a "Grand Master," who was usually masked and garbed in animal skins and satanic horns. When the gang had reported on their success or failure as satanic agents since the last meeting and had finished feasting (usually on a sheep stolen from a farmer), the Master took up his reed pipe and led them in a riotous dance, which ended in a sexual orgy lasting "until the first light of dawn broke...