Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world to use after the war. But most important to him, he sees a chance to break the back of the regional one-crop system which has been the curse of U.S. agriculture for three generations. Gradual steps towards diversification have been taken for years with only slight success. It took the tragedy of world war, of starving people, of men earning big wages producing machines of death to provide the long-sought agricultural opportunity, and Claude Wickard does not mean to let it slip...
...pursuit of the advancing Germans. Roman Messaggero's War Correspondent Lino Pellegrini described the difficulties of keeping up with the swift ally. "The enemy mud," he said, "is implacable to those who seek to advance at any cost, and only tractors can get over it with relative success. The distance of a few kilometers seems unobtainable. . . . Often German comrades helped my car along with their energetic arms...
...Logic. If these reasonable words did not bring soldiers to toss their hats in air and give a rousing cheer, no one had cause to be surprised. For the quality of Henry Stimson is to persuade rather than to rouse. His lack of success at rabble-rousing was demonstrated 31 years ago, in 1910, when Theodore Roosevelt, just returned from Africa, picked Henry Stimson, the crack U.S. Attorney in New York City, to run for Governor of New York. Banking heavily on Henry Stimson's record as buster of the sugar trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator...
...endless stream of endless picaresque costume novels that sprang from the huge success of Anthony Adverse (1,224 pages) and Gone With the Wind (1,037 pages), this one has two distinctions. It is one of the longest (1,176 pages) and it is Viking's first gamble with this gargantuan species. Being in other respects no better and no worse than other imitators, it spreads sail before some of the steadiest book-trade-winds that blow...
...Architect G. E. Kidder Smith. Stockholm's houses (over 30% of them built in the last ten years) and public buildings are the world's models-famed for intelligent modern architecture, well-planned integration, neat, modest lines. The Swedes have no great architects, no great planners: their success is the community...