Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line struggle, for instance; instead, Schell quotes workers, who described to him how the struggle and its resolution affected their lives. It makes the picture somehow more complete than either a simple first-person narrative or an academic work could be, because Schell has tried, generally with success, to put the face behind the statistics...
...whole thing just snowballed from there," Medenica says. After several fits and starts, the team got untracked late in the spring, racing through mid-September whenever possible. Herne rolled up 30 points to the runner-up's 27 to capture the New England championship, an unusual degree of success for a first-year team with a largely untested driver...
...hard at inventing that he rarely had time to spend the money he made, except on lab equipment or perhaps a new house. For Edison, money was simply a sign that his inventions were working. He once told a young colleague, "Whatever you do, Sammy, make a brilliant success of it or a brilliant failure. Just do something. Make...
Clark's book is neither a brilliant success nor a brilliant failure. His research is impressive, but he doesn't think very hard about what he has dug up. Clark continually and annoyingly relies on quotes to supply the book's only colorful observations about Edison's personality and his image. It is Edison's words, not Clark's, that provide the reader with a sense of the danger of the inventor's headlong rush to "make it go." Clark quotes Edison when he decided to relocate his lab in New Jersey saying, "See that valley? Well, I'm going...
Radcliffe obviously could patent the special recipe for success...