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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaders of both groups were confident of success last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP, Democratic Groups Here Both See Election Win | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

...ironic thing about the huge success of this one-man Statute of Liberty play is that Roche who had to persuade the defenders that he was going to pass, was playing with a damaged right arm that wouldn't let him pass. All the chucking in the Holy Cross game was done by Jim Noonan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Many Cooks... | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

Other researchers have had less success. Three Detroit doctors reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association that they were stopping the use of enterogastrone on patients, but were continuing to study it in the laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones for Ulcers | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...When success first came, Lehar was 35 -broad, bluff and charming. But he had had to fight for his laurels. The first rehearsals of The Merry Widow in Vienna seemed so bad that he had to plead with the director, "Let us at least open." Its Vienna success was instantaneous, and soon Paris, Berlin, London and New York were whistling the famous waltz. But the world never gave Lehar the serious reputation he thought he deserved. He wrote: "Most people are inclined to regard operettas as something inferior-entertaining no doubt, and full of easily remembered tunes-but distinctly lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Count of Luxemburg | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Last week she had a cracking success on her hands. Already blanketing 64 Long Island towns, Newsday invaded the Huntington area* with a special edition, to cover more of the polo-playing, big-spending North Shore. The paper was carrying more ads than any Manhattan evening paper, and running in the black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Captain's Daughter | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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