Word: success
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from dormitory units. At present the body is selected by the Dean's office in cooperation with Yard proctors. Candidate nominations for the elected committee would be made by student after a series of proctor-conducted meetings during the first four weeks of the fall term. Thus the entire success of these elections would depend on the work of the proctors and the interest of the students in each entry. The elective plan would give freshmen control of their own affairs, plus representation on the Council at the beginning of their first year. With this system, classes would no longer...
...infection that put him in the hospital. As he wasted away, Luce called on him every night to keep him abreast of TIME'S doings. Hadden, kept up by blood transfusions, still remembering the early days of the magazine, sometimes found it hard to realize TIME'S success. One evening, as Luce outlined the magazine's first big advertising campaign-to cost $20,000-Hadden asked in alarm: "My God, Harry, have we got that much money...
...Overtime. In St. Louis, Walter Mingo, admitting 40 apartment burglaries told police he attributed his success to keeping strict union hours-9 to 4, five days a week...
With the tying and winning runs on base and one out in the last of the ninth, a virtually unknown utility outfielder named Ed Foynes dropped a single into left field, thus adding a Frank Merriwellian touch to Ira Godin's third success of the season...
...Winthrop series was made an even more complete success by the unscheduled showing of "Monsieur Verdoux," the new Charlie Chaplin film which has been withdrawn from the American market due to the pressure of certain unofficial censuring groups. This special showing was arranged by Mr. Matthiessen who personally requested the film after seeing it at another private performance at Kenyon College. If it had done nothing more, the Winthrop Series rendered a great service to the College in this instance...