Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faulkner like the Compsons finds meaning in the past, he is not concerned with the Snopeses who find a very limited type of truth in the future. The Snopeses may succeed in their own terms, but in Faulkner's frame of reference they have no future, no "truth...
...mill and built it into the nation's sixth largest steel company, with 1956 assets of $675 million and $664 million of sales. In his career Weir fought the Government, unions and fellow steelmakers; his is the only sizable steel company not organized by the United Steelworkers. To succeed himself as chief executive he nominated Thomas E. Millsop, 58, his protege, a former riveter who talked Weir into giving him a selling job, three years ago became National Steel's president. For the job of chairman, soon to be named, Washington rumor suggested the name of about...
Richard M. Goody, meteorological physicist, will succeed Charles F. Brooks '12, retiring professor of Meteorology, as director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory next year...
This strategy need not succeed. Since the Supreme Court school decision, public opinion against discriminatory practice in the rest of the country has risen almost as strongly, if more quietly, as that of the South in defense of its long-established customs. As witnessed in the letters Brownell cited, people are no longer willing to live and let civil rights infringements live. President Eisenhower, a popular leader, should use whatever influence he still has with Congress, if necessary, appealing to the nation...
...like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat Hawley. They nearly succeed. A pipe is shot from the mouth of a bird-watching master, the dorm-to-chapel sprint record is broken, and the "discriminatory practices" of the old against the young in the matters of sex and summer are defeated. As the two cronies weasel their way to Yale and through...