Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco could be made a success by energy and assurance, Ed Stettinius would make it the biggest thing since the angels gathered to throw out Lucifer...
...chain stretching from Japan to Formosa. There Admiral Nimitz mounted an amphibious operation, surpassed only by those of Sicily and Normandy, to hurl the troops ashore. And by week's end Buckner knew that his Tenth had caught the Japanese by surprise and had scored a smashing initial success...
Baffling Bridget. Educated at Vassar, Johns Hopkins, a London hospital, Manhattan's Bellevue and various baby hospitals, Dr. Dodge became an expert on rheumatic fever, taught pediatrics at New York University's Medical School, had a private Manhattan practice on the side. Resoundingly successful in her profession, she has met less success at the poker table and was baffled in the case of Bridget, a ten-year-old Briton whom she took in during the blitz. Bridget, though a nice child, proved many child-care textbook theories wrong, taught the child expert a good deal about children...
...Success Story. G.M.'s National Bank was a success from the start. Big & little depositors, some of whom had taken their money from other banks and hoarded it, flocked in to establish accounts amounting to $11,538,339 on the first day of business. By the end of 1933, National had a respectable total of $189,693,074 in deposits...
Socially, artistically and humanly, he reports that his experiment has been a success. The landscape became beautiful. In three years eight inches of topsoil was added-to exhausted fields. One of the tenants stole, and, when the sheriff ordered him away, broke all the windows in his house. Another started quarrels among the farmers. But for the most part life went pleasantly and rewardingly. Whether anyone but a prosperous novelist could afford such an experiment, Author Bromfield does...