Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This confusion started the terror, but there is one factor to be considered in connection with it. An administration may not inform a man when he comes up for promotion or reappointment what his chances of eventual success are. If this is the policy, a man may spend 15 years basking in contented sunshine before he receives...
...political champion may make a huge success in the provinces, but he is not worth his ice water until he has cried his cause in New York City. Abraham Lincoln made his first big national impression before an audience in Cooper Union in 1860. William Jennings Bryan chose the rostrum of old Madison Square Garden to launch his first Presidential campaign in 1896. Such job-seekers as Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt have counted New York the climax of their speaking tours. Similarly Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., after opening the membership drive...
...Fort Wayne, Ind. in 1883. In 1909, the first night game ever played on a major-league field took place on the same field as last week's, between Elks from Cincinnati and Newport, Ky. Wrote Reporter Jack Ryder in the Cincinnati Enquirer: "If the attempt is a success it is likely that every ball park in the major leagues will be equipped with lighting apparatus." In 1927, it began to look as if Ryder's premature prophecy might eventually come true, when minor leagues began to experiment seriously with night baseball. Depression encouraged the idea. By last...
...what our part has been is of little consequence-but the result is plain to all. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, our former president, has an apt way of saying, 'You can't both do a thing and get credit for it and that describes our attitude. . . . The success of such films as David Copperfield and Les Miserables and of many other fine pictures is certainly a sign of progress...
...wire-cutting barrage started on schedule, so did the infantry attack, only to be swept back into its trenches by the murderous German fire. The furious general, seeing his boasted success vanishing, telephoned back to a supporting battery to shell the French trenches, drive the men forward. But the artillery officer refused, unless the general would put the order in writing-which he was not insane enough to do. In 35 minutes the hopeless attack was over. The regiment was ordered out of the line the same day, was put under arrest as soon as it was safely...