Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experiment is a success, it may be that private owners will follow the example set by the Housing Office and convert unoccupied buildings into quarters for the families of the trainees...
...north, below Leningrad. Led by Marshal Semion Timoshenko, the Russians-taking full advantage of the remaining weeks of winter-were attacking the entire German 16th Army near Lake Ilmen. Moscow said that over 300 towns and settlements had been retaken, that 11,000 Germans were killed or captured. Success would mean that the Germans would be outflanked on the approaches of Leningrad. Then, especially if the Finns managed to make peace the whole Nazi position in the north would be in peril...
...success made the swindlers overbold. Well-satisfied claimants went to work for the lawyers, drummed up new business for a cut of the profits. The law firms which ran the racket even began a price war. The lawyers also became less careful in the selection of clients. Persons not only in the 50s but also in the 40s and even 30s were making claims for disability from heart disease...
Gubbins' ability to reduce wartime annoyances to absurdity and make Britons chuckle at themselves and their annoyers is the peg on which hangs his success. Last week, counting an average of three readers for each copy of the Sunday Express sold, lugubrious Nathaniel Gubbins had an audience of almost...
Over the Crimson Network last Monday, Duke explained why the program, at the Boston theatre was so disappointing, but he didn't have time to express himself, too clearly. Boiled down, it all comes to this: regardless of the success which Ellington has had playing his own choices, the theatre managers have to have their own way, or else Ellington just doesn't play return engagements. It isn't a matter of what the public likes, you have to please the managers...