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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel this turn of events to be tragic. Because America has to a great degree the power to make the coming peace a success or failure, she is not only responsible to her own people but to all people. The times demand statesmanship, for America's greatness and America herself are on trial before the tribune of all humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...London, was uncertain whether he would get it. Said he: "The Mother Country-I must ask leave to use this name-anyhow, I think it is rather dangerous to plunge into a new nomenclature and I am not sure that anything like the Elder Sister Country would be a success. There was the old song. . . . 'A boy's best friend is his mother' which seems to me sometimes worth humming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mother England | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Apart from the soldier-slapping the fact remains that as commander of the II Corps in Tunisia (four divisions plus), General Patton distinguished himself in both attack and defense, took Gafsa and stopped the German Panzers at El Guettar, and that his record of success continued in Sicily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Whatever his Faults | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...Alabama, in search of oil since 1870, sank some 200 wells without success before the first producer came in last February, in Choctaw County, 75 miles northwest of Mobile. By last week there were three small producers, and almost every acre in 15 counties was under lease to big oil companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Southeastern Boom | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...been elected by the battalion. The election conclave had many of the aspects and all of the noise of a big-time affair. Pryor, Diano and Jaffa will hold the billets of President, Vice-President, and Secretary-Treasurer respectively. Said each of the office holders after his success,--Pryor, "Well, I'll be damned." Diano, "My dear, devoted and loyal constituents--" (Throw him out! Throw him out!--His devoted constituents shouted.) Jaffa--"Now boys, I want to see all the money for those bills paid promptly...

Author: By T. X. Cronin and Wm. COUSINS Jr., S | Title: -:- The Lucky Bag -:- | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

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