Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealth. She should not be described as eccentric, unless this word is used to describe philanthropy and unselfishness -two attributes Mrs. Joslyn possesses and Hetty Green lacked. You have also sacrificed accuracy for sensation alism in describing the creation of the Joslyn fortune. It was chiefly gained through the success of the Western Newspaper Union, much better described as an institution to make country newspapers more interesting to their subscribers and profitable to their publishers than purveyors of boiler plate...
...downward spiral of deflation will be definitely checked. If it fails, historians may well look back upon 1932 with a shudder. In prospect, however, was not the wind of wild printing-press inflation which afflicted Germany and France but rather a rescue of credit from its enemy, deflation. Success required large plans, bold...
Other writers, noticing his marked success, followed after him. Maurois replaced the manifold volumes of Monnypenny and Buckle with a slim life of Disraeli full of anecdotes, personal revelations and a little history. Many people were forced, by the charm of the writer, to learn about a statesman of whom they had known virtually nothing. Ludwig in Germany began turning out his various biographies of almost any prominent figure that came to mind. There are many others who have performed similar public services...
...Boston Garden this afternoon. This game was slated for Saturday at Dedham, but was postponed owing to poor ice conditions. The yearlings have been showing improvement under Coach Clark Hodder all winter and should be able to overcome the resistance which the schoolboy stickmen showed with such little success in their game with the seconds...
...years at Yale learns to live more richly and more happily, he has not spent his time in vain. The measures of success is not a lot of canned knowledge, but the ability to get out and do something. The social side of his life at Yale is often more important to his development than his classes." It is essential that this point of view, one recently expressed in an editorial in the Yale Daily News, be fully grasped with all its implications...