Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish Labor Committee's report concluded: "On the one side we observed a spirited attempt of the Jews in the various [Iron Curtain] countries to rebuild their culture and their institutions . . . and on the other side the success of the Communist regimes in ... smashing Jewish life, including [the Jews'] instruments of self-government and their very souls...
Last Straw. When he started, the church had 150 members. Now there are 744; an extra hall and loudspeakers are needed to accommodate the congregation on Sundays. Last month, ground was broken for a new $100,000 church which will seat 600 people. But for all these tokens of success, Pastor Douds's conception of Christianity has riled some influential members of his flock...
...Nicolaas Christiaan Havenga went right ahead anyway. He ridiculed the Fund's objections. Said he: "It is becoming increasingly clear . . . that . . . the fiction that gold is worth only $35 an ounce cannot endure much longer. This is an international problem and will soon be the touchstone of the success or failure of the Fund...
Life With Two Scotches. Last week, J. P. Marquand could look back on 27 years of unbroken writing success. In all those years he has finished every book and story he ever started, has sold everything he has written except one short story ("It was supposed to be funny and wasn't"). The Satevepost alone has paid him something like half a million dollars for the no "slicks" and serials of his that the Post has published over a period of nearly 20 years...
Marquand's badgered males seldom know where they're really heading. Undergraduate Marquand resembled one of his own heroes. He had concentrated on chemistry, like Fellow Dasher Conant, but after hitting the books with some success (he took his degree in three years), he decided that science was not his field. The most attractive job he could find was a place as a cub reporter on the Boston Transcript. He was just learning his way around when President Wilson called out the National Guard, ordered some of it to the Mexican border. A friend reminded John that...