Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borkman (Victor Jory) had had a vast, almost visionary, lust for power; and to get it, he gave up love. Yet he failed, for all that-he overreached himself, went to prison, embittered his success-worshiping wife, emerged a pariah who for eight years shut himself up, futilely nursing his grandiose dream. When his wife's sister-the woman he loved and should have married-comes, herself dying, to reproach yet try to reshape him, she is too late. Leaving his house with her, Borkman dies of "the cold...
Britain's experimental jet-powered passenger plane, the Nene-Lancastrian, said Whittle, was "an almost alarming-success." Flying on jets alone, she was uncannily quiet. "You can hear the engines of other planes. Imagine what that means to flying! Almost everybody gets tired on airplanes. It's the noise and vibration that does it. In a jet plane you can rest...
...When circulation shot over a million in four months, advertisers crowded aboard for a free ride. The cost of printing 750,000 unexpected copies far exceeded the revenue from advertising and circulation. Editor Henry R. Luce had earmarked $1,000,000 of Time Inc. money "to see LIFE to success or into an honorable grave"-but before rates were adjusted, $5,000,000 had been spent to keep LIFE from dying of success...
...experience could be communicated, instead of having to be learned, it might be easier to write a Gettysburg Address, become President, or make a million dollars. But the more successful a man is, the simpler he makes it sound. Lord Beaverbrook, a success in his line, is no exception...
...Shelley had genius but he would not have been a success on Wall Street-though the poet showed a flash of business knowledge in refusing to lend money to Byron...