Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stultifying? On the eve of last week's Paris conference ECA's Averell Harriman put the issue thus: "...Success [of the ECA program] would be impossible in a system made up of small, autarchic, uneconomic national trading units, each one dedicated to self-defeating self-sufficiency, each one standing off his neighbor with ingeniously stultifying restrictions...
...only fair way to evaluate the success of a project like the Purchase Card is in terms of the aims and the plans of the group behind it. The primary job of the NSA Purchase Card committee at Harvard this year was, in conjunction with the other NSA colleges in the Boston Area, to put into operation a working Purchase Card System. Harvard's committee was selected to head this operation. If we take a look at the results of the first few months of the PCS in Boston we can see that a successful, working system has been...
Right now, the club's treasury is getting a financial transfusion thanks to the unusual success "A Touch of the Times" has had so far. Still unseen by the public, "A Touch" has been snatched up for international amateur film distribution, professional showings, and television broadcasts. This sort of stuff just doesn't happen to silent movies unless they are exceptional...
...half that stayed home ought to make the trip while it still can. Astaire and Rogers assure any musical of success. When you add to them the comic talents of Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick and the music of Irving Berlin ("top Hat," "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught In the Rain," and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek") it's like insuring the Rock of Gilbraltar against erosion...
...truck driver set off one morning last week to climb the mile-high mountain. Except for two students who got tired and lagged a quarter mile behind, the climbers had no trouble getting close to the top. Just as they opened a bottle of rum to celebrate their easy success, a terrific explosion shook Purac...