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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Success," Maurice Chevalier confided to Columnist Elsa Maxwell, "is like a squirrel. Try to catch it and it runs away. Lie down in the sun, close your eyes, and hold out a nut-and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Flesh & Spirit | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...commons hall, plus land and maintenance for the entire project have been contributed by the Corporation. This contribution is contingent on the success of the drive to raise the $2,000,000 needed for the dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Approves Graduate Center Plan | 10/14/1948 | See Source »

Conference speakers will includes Mrs. Brower Blackall, national drive chairman, and Mr. Horace W. Frost, president of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association. They will stress the urgency of success in the campaign and will offer practical suggestions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Alumnae Chart Last Drive for Funds | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

Died. Gregg Toland, 44, top Hollywood cameraman (The Long Voyage Home The Best Years of Our Lives) famed for his combination of creative imagination and technical skill; of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Toland introduced revolutionary innovations which contributed to the critical success oi such movies as Citizen Kane and the Oscar-winning Wuthering Heights, just before he died was concentrating on the ultimate focus" lens (which makes both near and far objects equally distinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...watching an extraordinary effort to get cattle across a certain immense expanse of difficult and threatening country, that you are learning a lot about how such a job feels and gets done, and that the perpetually wrangling players are important not so much of themselves, but because the whole success or failure of the attempt depends on these people. The attempt is really the story, and the "background" is really the hero of the piece, and its villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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