Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...wise men know that Mr. Hull's reluctance can be overcome and when that will be-when his trade agreement program is safely in harbor. Solemnly all Washington admits that if Mr. Hull today were to be given his choice of the Presidency or the success of his program, he would unhesitatingly choose the latter. No higher tribute could be paid a U. S. politician in an election year. That No. 1 appraiser of U. S. selfishness, Post master General James A. Farley, once said: ". . . Cordell Hull is the most unselfish man I ever met." Agreement Disagreement. The saint...
...Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place where our men were supposed to be having their only real success? And that we have no chance of winning until warm weather returns? This is the campaign which was to end in ten days...
...been approached on the subject, and the quotation in his opinion is the work of a modern poet writing in Biblical style. From the style he thought it might possibly be written by G. K. Chesterton. He went to considerable trouble to try to trace the words, but without success." Sir Edward Denison Ross, the eminent British expert on Oriental literature, guessed that the words must come from an unpublished work, because "they are so good" that if they had been published the author would certainly be known...
...success formula of this most widely heard man in the English-speaking world is essentially simple. "We are in the worst period of history the world has known," he says, "and the job is to keep explaining why, why, why without being a Jeremiah." So Swing tells what's what simply, calmly, right, with no flash-flashes, no calamitous crescendos, no special hallmark of his own except a level, almost hushed "Good night...
...Harvard men can lead a successful rout of the Communists from control of the Student Union, then they can be of far more service to their principles in the national organization than they would be out of it. Observers sympathetic to their aims can only wish them success in their venture, with the reservation that if they fail, they should no longer stay in the Union. In the nation's eyes, an overwhelming repudiation of the packed Madison ballots would repair a badly damaged reputation and lead the way to establishment of a reputable student liberal front...