Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack, were driven off by British Beaufighters on their second, sank the 1,695-ton Kipling on a third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves. Sir Stafford Cripps, British Lord Privy Seal, recently told his Bristol constituents: "The Germans are getting uneasy at the militant spirit of the British and American people in this matter of a second front." The Italians, who know that some of the most militant Allied...
Holidaying on Broadway from his Pacific Coast success, he and his picture dissolve back to the time when he was a Broadway hoofer, and Broadway begins. But its star, who is constitutionally unable to play the simple, naive vaudevillian the original role called for, substitutes the life-&-times of George Raft. They are unco dull...
Behind its success lies the colorful shrewdness of Impresario Fortune Gallo. Unlike top-flight opera companies, Gallo's San Carlo keeps away from operas which are artistic monuments but financial hazards. For its 20,000-mile tour this season, 13 operas were enough. Seven of them (Aïda, Carmen, Faust, Trovatore, Rigoletto, Traviata, Boheme) are such longtime favorites that Gallo's troupe has given them more than 1,000 times apiece...
...tutor; the average yearly tutorial budget $300,000. By enlisting the full cooperation of the Houses, tutees could be grouped into effective teachable units. The House staffs which will be increased to meet the demands of entering Freshmen know their men as individuals and can shoose compatible groups. The success of the interdepartmental conferences in Eliot House this year shows that group instruction in the Houses is feasible. A tutor whose 28 men were arranged into groups of four, would have his time cut by three-quarters and the University would save an equal amount of money. If carried...
...secrets of his success as a local "pol" is the way he appeals to his constitutents. He incites race hatred to get a few votes, or maliciously builds up a fear of some bogey such as communism. On the other hand, many people follow him for what he has done for them. Time after time, he has arranged hospital care for those who couldn't otherwise afford it, and in more cases than not, for victims outside his own district. Many families have received free milk or fruits from him, seldom knowing where it came from...