Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town and laid out $600 as a down payment on a onetime burlesque house. Mayer hid the shoddy past of his theater with a coat of white paint, installed an organ, and dug up a religious film called From the Manger to the Cross. His opening was a socko success. The lines of ticket buyers taught L. B. Mayer a lesson he never forgot: Americans want simple, clean entertainment...
Captain Jim Shue said the fate of the team in this season's games has rested with the halfback line. Team success has fluctuated markedly with the up and down quality of halfback play, sometimes superb, but too often very bad. Shue said he considers halfbacks "the key to success in soccer, because they're both the defensive and offensive machine of the team...
...General Education and shallow understanding the Institute for Advanced Study provides a refreshingly restricted and wise venture into the vast field of learning. Its astonishing success speaks well for thorough, understanding and advanced scholarship.J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER...
...nation is understandably frightened by Russia's recent successes with missiles and rockets. Last night the President appeared on television to allay the nation's fears. His success was questionable...
...difficult indeed to gauge the success of an education, to measure the percentage of inspiration and the effect of discipline which an instructor brings to his pupils...