Word: successes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only or youngest child is a poor risk unless married to an oldest or middle child. Most successful mating is that of an oldest child with another oldest. ¶Chances of success are greater if an individual marries another of similar family background...
Reviewing his findings, Professor Burgess declared they furnished "conclusive evidence that by the use of statistical techniques, prediction of success or failure in marriage is feasible, in terms, to be sure, not of the individual couple but of the group into which the couple falls." Observing that success in marriage "now depends more than ever before upon the findings of research in the psychological and social sciences," he proposed establishment of a Marriage Adjustment Research Institute to develop even more reliable methods of prediction...
...three exchange members, two nonmember partners and four outsiders, of whom one was New Dealer Adolf A. Berle Jr. and another, Publisher Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal. Last week Wall Street gossip gave Vice Chairman Trowbridge Callaway most credit for the committee's success. Their conclusion: "It is apparent to us that the organization of the New York Stock Exchange should be revised to accord with changing times and conditions." Their major proposals...
...some ways the buoyant, penniless, unbreakable Bronson Alcott-who bounced up and down as good-naturedly as if the path from success to failure was the most pleasant and natural one in the world-symbolized this spirit better than anyone else...
...high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life is communicated almost in spite of her efforts. In Louisa's revolt against her father's unpracticality, she set herself to make money. She got her money and her popular success but none of the intellectual following she deserved and needed. At 56 her nerves and health collapsed. Shut away in a darkened house in Roxbury, her acute illness unknown to the world, she died two days after her father, who wanted none of the things she broke her heart trying...