Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, before the post mortoms are concluded, due credit should be given to Professor Morris, Ensign Healy, Lt. Andrew, Lt. Muchmore, and many others who also helped make the party the success...
...following evening, Symphony Hall heard one of the most varied and successful programs of the year, which included everything from Bach to Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and Borodin. If the before mentioned concert proved that unknown works can be a success, this proved that known quantities can be even more so. The Third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major is a tried and trusted quantity, although one might have wished for a few less strings than the Boston Symphony can throw into the fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were...
...Summer Tide. The Allies conceded that their counter-measures were so far inadequate. Heavy bombers stormed over submarine repair and construction centers at Wilhelmshaven, Duisburg, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Vegesack, but with limited success. A recent raid on Vegesack, touted as "possibly the heaviest single blow of the war against U-boat production," resulted in damage to seven of 15 unfinished U-boats. Germany's submarine production, to which all other naval building is subordinate, may be as high as 40 a month; Doenitz may already have upward of 600 raiders in his fleet...
From the statement it appears that a "low pass" average does not necessarily mean success, nor does a record of two "unsats" mean failure. In case of doubt, "each case is examined and action is taken after full consideration of the facts." The "facts" may be academic, or otherwise...
Wales and the Repulse were at the bottom of the sea, and in Singapore's navy yard there was "a general atmosphere of a large studio rather confusedly at work upon B pictures." Official communiques were framed in guarded language ("Our troops success fully disengaged the enemy"). Though Weller believed that "plain speaking...