Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flash cards, he said, will be distributed in the Stadium behind the benches in sections 35 and 36 before the game Saturday. To insure the success of the flash display, he cautioned, occupants of these sections should not move their cards until told to do so or leave their seats between halves...
...trend in C.E.E.B. exam-making is steadily away from achievement tests (what do you know?) toward aptitude tests like the Navy exam (how well can you learn?). The aptitude tests, says Chauncey, are "about as good a single index of future success in college as there...
...world premiere of Song of the South was scheduled for this week, with appropriate Hollywood razzle-dazzle, in Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic of the Atlanta Journal (the rival Constitution's onetime editor: Joel Chandler Harris) went on a special junket to Hollywood for a preview. He has pronounced the picture fully as great-if not anywhere near so long-winded-as that other Atlanta-premiered movie, Gone With the Wind: "There...
...Success in Singapore. Instantly, he set to work again-and this time, his eye fell on the ancient island of Singapore. Centuries earlier, a flourishing city had stood there, but it had become merely a negligible appendage to the Malayan Sultanate of Johore. Where Singapore city now stands were "four or five little huts, and six or seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade...
Murray described the CIO role in last winter's wage disputes as "magnificent," and said "The firm unity within the CIO will result in the same success in the coming months as we achieved during the past winter...