Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked how long he would stay in this retirement, Gandhi said: "There is no limit. ... It may even be a lifetime. My object is to make Hindus and Moslems brothers and sisters. I can but make an attempt, success can be granted only by God. I shall do or die in Noakhali . . . even if all the Hindus go away, I shall be the solitary Hindu in Noakhali...
...short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success. And in the whole range of drama from Aeschylus to O'Neill are plays that will make theater-going something other than a trial by ordeal...
...delegates will attempt to create an organization through which subsequent and more completely representative student meetings can discuss and act on matters of student welfare. The quality of the delegates may well determine the success or failure of the Chicago conference, for in the past student gatherings have invariably sunk knee-deep in weighty resolutions instead of chasing after specific objectives. If a student organization can be set up now to function forcefully on such questions as GI allotments, the miserable condition of public education in the South, and religious and racial quotas in schools, the student's part...
...Russia, who are remarkably like people everywhere, would rather improve this sorry picture than carry the Marxist banner to distant lands. Stalin & Co., in spite of their enormous foreign and military commitments, have been trying desperately since the war ended to ease the shortages. They have had some success. A walk around Moscow last week showed Russians better dressed than last year, more toys and cooking utensils in shop windows and, in some sections, lights gleaming in rooms which last year were only hollow shells of construction interrupted by the war or bombed-out wrecks gutted...
...United Nations Council Plans to send Bryant down to Lake Success before the two-day meeting, Stephen M. Schwebel '50, chairman of the group, declared. There he will study the functions of the regular U. N. Security Council at first-hand...