Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats. Into the field went organizers. Their success was immediate. By last week they had formed 2,000 units of from seven to 100 workers engaged in innumerable handcraft industries-tan-mng, spinning, weaving, printing, mining, making over 300 types of articles from boots to boats, from candles to light bulbs. Indusco last week boasted 50,000 cooperating members producing at the rate of $6,000,000 (Chinese) worth of goods every month...
Suspect (by Edward Percy & Reginald Denham; produced by Douglas MacLean & Arthur J. Beckhard). Three weeks ago Playwrights Percy & Denham scored a neat success on Broadway with their horror play, Ladies in Retirement. Not only is Suspect a much weaker play, but its good points are all hand-me-downs from Ladies in Retirement...
...self-conscious balletomane could not tell a chassé from a shag. Russian ballet troupes taught him. First they were the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe; now, after complicated schisms and reorganizations, they are the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the beginning, much of their box-office success has been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome...
Delighted with his success, Dr. Long tried ether on eight other patients. But gradually the word spread around that he was a sorcerer, and he was forced to give up anesthesia. Too modest to publish his early experiments until many years later, he laid his ether bottles aside...
...great outdoors glimmers through the clear Cambridge air. No wallflowers for undergraduate attentions are the Youth Hostels; church groups and clubs lure students with promises of hikes. Mountaineers and skiers, although addicted to sports requiring more than the usual skill and agility, have sold themselves with great success. Clearly potentialities are great...