Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thanking the scientists for their work, Colonel L. Champeny stated that their work "although seemingly small in scope had played a great part in assuring the success of larger overall projects...
Bringing New York's crackerjack little company to Chicago was largely the idea of the Chicago Tribune's caustic critic Claudia Cassidy, who had insistently trumpeted, "Why doesn't Chicago have something like it?" Claudia deserved some of the credit for the opening-night success (though the house was not sold out) and a subsequent Carmen (which did sell out). Wrote she: "If we are to have opera on a budget, either visiting or in residence, we may as well know immediately what it is like. Salome indicated that it is vivid, effective, sometimes brilliant, and that...
Bryan Green (he is popularly referred to without the Rev. or Mr.) is considered England's top evangelist. His success as a fisher of men lies perhaps in his combination of a relaxed, almost chatty delivery with a sudden-flaring, white-hot zeal. His manner is easy and urbane, but his matter is often passionate, personal, and contemptuous of easygoing Christianity. Man is either for God, he says, or against...
Died. Samuel Johnson Woolf, 68, famed artist-journalist (mostly for the New York Times), author (Drawn from Life, Here Am I) and onetime cover artist for TIME; of lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan. Woolf scored a success with his World War I battlefield paintings, hit on the portrait-interview combination in 1927 with a story on George Bernard Shaw, went on to do some 500 for the Sunday Times...
...source book, it is a success. Its authors have retold the story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...