Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a political standpoint, judging by the crowd's reception, Wallace's Southern tour had been a great success. He and his speechwriters had whipped 48,000 New Yorkers into a state of near frenzy. But had they done more than deepen the prejudices which they were trying to overcome...
From 1939 to 1944, Oxnam was bishop of the Boston area. There he had one notable success - persuading Cardinal O'Connell to sign a joint statement with him condemning the 1942-43 wave of anti-Semitism in Boston-and one small failure, in his drive for ever-increasing personal efficiency. The latter was his scheme for hooking a dictation machine, to his car battery, so that he could park at spare moments and dash off a few letters. After finding himself marooned a few times with a dead battery, he abandoned the experiment. But he was the first bishop...
...contrast with U.N. was startling. In two years, Lake Success has had no noticeable loss of headphones; after the first day of the World Council, 30 sets were missing - 25 of which were later returned. younger churches of Asia and Africa than did earlier ecumenical conferences. Handsome, flashing-eyed Sarah Chakko of India expressed their attitude: "There . . . seems to us to be an undue fear of Communism, especially among the delegates from the U.S. In Asia the people we must reach are people who are asking them selves frankly, 'Is Communism the right...
Despite this heavy flavor of Lake Success, Amsterdam was being watched with prayerful hope by Christians throughout the world. This hope was expressed in the Christian Century, in a quatrain by Edith Lovejoy Pierce, titled Amsterdam and Lake Success...
...success of GCA was something for U.S. commercial lines and the Civil Aeronautics Administration to study. Though commercial pilots have generally preferred ILS (instrument landing system) because they control landings themselves, many a commercial pilot on airlift duty has now been won over to GCA. Said one last week: "When I think of all the hours I've spent stacked up in the soup over New York, maybe this is the answer...