Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...modern process of calculation, their margin of superiority in numbers is not enough to support that promise. So far as can be gauged, only the introduction of some radically new weapon, or extraordinarily bad generalship on the Allies' side, could give them any chance of real success...
...advancement of their strategic position. Neither Belgium nor Switzerland offers a very tempting target. The water lines in the one case, the mountain ranges in the other, form a formidable obstacle to rapid penetration, while Allied reinforcement to either if attacked would be comparatively easy. An incomplete success might bring more complications than advantages to the invader...
...experimental even in the realm of pure knowledge. But nevertheless they were drawn up by professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, who can't all be wet. And for three seasons the exams have been tried on first-year graduate guinea-pigs at those universities with some success...
...early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway. After her great cinema success, Dodsworth, she deserted Hollywood for foreign studios, early last year returned...
...dangerous rut of auction room impressionism, a frailty common among many artists who are painting today. Her piece entitled "Pines And Snow," contains a definite Corot-ish tendency; and Miss Mackay has, perhaps unconsciously, adapted Corot's facility for painting early morning landscapes in her won subject matter with success...