Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means of figures so secret they were torn up in small bits before the Senators left the committee room, the Army showed that six Axis planes are shot down to each U.S. plane in combat. (If this success is owing to pilot excellence rather than plane capabilities, that is a good argument for not sending U.S. pilots out in flying coffins like the Jap Zeros. If U.S. planes were stripped of armor, puncture-proof tanks and parachutes to make them lighter-hence more maneuverable, and able to fight at higher altitudes-pilot loss, like the Japs', would be terrific...
From his latest cell, where he must spend six months for practicing medicine without a license, nine months for carrying a revolver without a permit, Phillips explained his success. Said he: "The secret of my success in medicine and surgery is that I was able to build a better mousetrap...
...Tales of Manhattan" is unique in cinema production, and it will probably be a success just because of that. It is difficult to evaluate as a whole, because it is so chopped up into little episodes, some great, and some very much third rate. But the bad points are more than compensated for by Rita Hayworth, who should make the evening worth while for any red-blooded Harvard...
...person who watched last year's Crimson team meteor to its astonishing success, can forget Vern Miller, who is now writing a sports column for the Boston Globe Miller will speak at 10:50 o'clock tonight as part of a series of programs resumed from last spring known as the National News Review...
...Success in the Freshman competition opens the way for glory in wider fields. Six Sophomores will be chosen as Second Assistants to the Senior Managers next year, and of these, three will be eliminated at the end of the Sophomore competition that fall. The three who survive this sifting process will automatically take over immediately under the two and one-half year War-Time setup during the next year