Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope for the success of a world trade conference two years ago, but it has steadily faded. If trade is to be really free, not merely a scaling down of tariffs is needed but a major surgical operation. I see no prospect of that now." To this man, World War III has already begun-not as a shooting war but as a competition between socialism and capitalism. The outcome would depend on how the U.S. harnesses its productivity and distributes its prosperity. If the U.S. succeeded, capitalism would indeed be catching, and the shooting phase need never begin...
...expensively that half a dozen of her consonants will now pay for all the singing lessons she ever took. At 25, she has developed as tricky a style and as tony a claque as any of those quick bright things called "songstresses." Last week Songstress Knight had clinched her success by beginning (at $2,000 a week) her biggest radio series, as Tony Martin's opposite attraction on his new Texaco show...
...LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., April 9--The United Nations Security Council decided today, with Russia and Poland abstaining, that the British-Albanian minefield dispute should be judged by the International Court of Justice...
Miss Sulzberger checked King's bio folder in the morgue without success. She noted that Doubleday & Co. had published four volumes of King's works and, hoping that the verse might be among them, telephoned a Doubleday editor. Nothing could be done until the Doubleday office opened on Monday...
There again, his athletes distinguished themselves by placing second in the track and field tests, this time with a total of 166 points. Paave Nurmi, just beginning to dominate the headlines, paced the Finns by obliterating Olympic records in the 1500 and 5000 meters. Following this success, Jaakko was married at the Finnish Legation at Paris and subsequently returned to Harvard as cross country coach and assistant track coach...