Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success a United Nations technical committee-after fine-combing the evidence a month and a half-found that six European countries could not provide "the basic essentials" this year without UNRRA-type relief. The dollar value of these needs, after deducting those the claimants can hope to pay for: Austria, $143.5 million; Greece, $84.3 million; Hungary, $40.2 million, Italy, $106.9 milion; Poland, $139.9 million; Yugoslavia, $68.2 million. Total: $583 million...
...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
...Austrian-born Nobel Prizewinner Erwin Schrödinger, of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, claims to have generalized still further Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. If so, he has scored a scientific grand slam: mathematical physicists (including Einstein himself) have been trying to do this, without success, for the last 30 years...
...people who sent their children there were a measure of its success: they included college presidents (Compton of M.I.T., Conant of Harvard, Carmichael of Tufts); bishops (Dun of Washington, Nash of Massachusetts); professors (Harvard Law School's Thomas Reed Powell, Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...Success in four of six varsity events Saturday featured the biggest Crimson athletic weekend since...