Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success of the A.A.F.'s new pilot ejection seat would be welcome news to airmen who had long worried about bailing out of high-speed aircraft. But A.A.F. designers could not claim complete credit. The idea had been copied from a similar Luftwaffe gadget...
...efforts to help friendly China were a failure, U.S. occupation of her former enemy, Japan, was a success. Chinese Communists and their friends abroad might demand that U.S. Marines get out of China, but in the U.S. and Japan there was scarcely a whisper about America's pulling out of Japan...
Kahn's success is measured in more than the money the weather houses bring in. Besides the flock of new accounts it has attracted to his revived and thriving ad agency, Kahn gets quantities of hand-knitted scarves, homemade candy, pecans, etc., from satisfied farm customers who are short on cash...
...Everybody has a story to tell. If you get it the right way, the average man is more interesting than any celebrity. That's the big basic reason for the success of audience shows...
...Chief Justice in the fictitious Commonwealth of Ames and announced the decision of the court after two and a half hours of technical legal debating by the student competitors. He concluded with the remark that both sides had done an excellent job that augured well for their success...