Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business is really the key to the Harlow system, but there are few people besides the old master who even claim to know, let alone understand, the whole works. Dick said that he never looked at anything but the key block when watching a play, because that determined Its success, but unfortunately the ordinary mortal never knew what block this was, and just followed the ball carrier...
Knight declared that the inter-House competition was responsible for much of the success of the bond drive at the University. He declared the campaign had witnessed the greatest show of House spirit shown since the war began. "I would like to thank each and every contributor," Knight stated, "who helped to make possible this most successful bond drive in the University's history...
Artistically it was a success. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Howard Barlow played Schubert and Wagner to a big, enthusiastic crowd. But the costs in transportation and union wages were so high that it was obvious that a few more such ventures would exhaust all of Boss Petrillo's $250,000. In Chicago, he told the whole story...
...attracted by Okeh's success, Victor decided to enter the field, unearthed in Bristol, Va. a former Southern Railway brakeman named Jimmie Rodgers. His quaintly drawling voice soon became the biggest thing in hillbilly minstrelsy...
...Green Was My Valley, Richard Llewellyn's richly human first novel about a Welsh mining family, sold over 375,000 copies in the U.S. The movie made from it was voted the best picture of 1941. None But the Lonely Heart is utterly unlike that first success. It is a stream-of consciousness novel about two feverish weeks in the life of a 19-year-old London cockney. It was written while Llewellyn was serving in the British Army in Africa...