Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans understood better than silver-haired Jack Moakley what the Oxford-Cambridge team was proving in its U.S. tour: that competition can be fun and that a good athlete does not have to train to razor fineness to make a respectable showing. This week, Bannister & Co. planned to do better against a combined Harvard-Yale squad, but their day in Cambridge, Mass, would not be spoiled if they...
When Bonifacio Yturbide was three, a severe illness left him permanently blind. But Bonifacio, the son of Basque immigrant parents, had a good mind and a strong will. As he grew up, he found that insight could be at least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...
...college scholarships awarded by the Pepsi-Cola Co. Raymond I. Smith, manager of Reno's No. I gambling house, Harold's Club, chipped in for side expenses. Bonifacio went to the University of Nevada in Reno, prepared for law school by majoring in political science, became a good dancer, a fine chess player, the star of the university debating team, and a popular man-about-campus...
Mosquitoes & Poison Ivy. Did the years ahead, then, offer no contentment? Certainly not, said Novelist John P. Marquand at Massachusetts' Governor Dummer Academy-and a good thing, too. "I have observed," said he, "a number of superficially contented men and women . . . and I maintain they are dangerous. Personally, I am glad to say there are a lot of things today with which I am not contented ... I am not contented with the road system in Newbury . . . nor do I like the control of mosquitoes ... I am not contented with the Boston & Maine Railroad . . . nor do I like...
...tiny Kemmerer, just about everybody bought on credit, hence paid high prices. Jim Penney had a better idea: cash on the barrelhead. More important, at a time when most small-town retailers firmly believed it was good business to make a big profit on small volume, Penney subscribed to a still revolutionary idea; he wanted to make a small profit on each item, thus build big volume and a big profit...