Word: successful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, which, if sold to another player might enable that player to break the bank. Or he might be willing to pay several times the face value for a Pottery card that would help him build up a Pottery monopoly. A smart Stock Exchange operator might be a tremendous success at the game, which resolves itself largely into clever trading. On the other hand, the better the game becomes as a game, the less effective it becomes as a course in finance. It does illustrate, in an elementary manner, the fact that a bank can issue more notes than...
...front cover) In Chicago and in Philadelphia this week one of the many enterprises of William Wrigley, Jr. blossomed out into a fruitful and profitable success. For in these two cities two baseball teams were meeting and struggling for what was somewhat grandiloquently referred to as the world's baseball championship.* One team was the Philadelphia Athletics, representing the American League. The other was the Chicago Cubs, representing the National League. As everyone knows, Mr. Wrigley is Cub owner. The millions of U. S. citizens who, through radio and newspaper, hung upon the flash of every ball, the crack...
Edward Anderson ("Eddie") Stinson. flyer and plane manufacturer, and Errett Lobban ("E. L.") Cord, motor car manufacturer, celebrated their 35th birthdays nine days apart last July. Both have achieved large business success in their fields. But last week Mr. Stinson acknowledged Mr. Cord to be the greater executive. He did that by recommending that stockholders in his Stinson Aircraft Corp. sell out to the Cord Corp., by stating explicitly: "E. L. Cord has been one of the outstanding figures in the automotive industry during the past five years. ... He now intends to enter the aviation field in his usual forceful...
With only two lettermen returning, the University fencing team faces an unusually difficult schedule this winter. Captain D. I. Modell '30, who met with considerable success in the New England Intercollegiate Tournament last year, who graduated last June leaves a place hard to fill...
...Success for any human undertaking rests primarily upon the quality of the men involved. An amidst the scurry for improvement, Professor Henderson's advice to mark time until the human element has caught up with the mechanical and theoretical rings true like an age-old maxim. Certainly the real significance of this most recent proposal is the fact that in it lies the true foundation for the successful realization of the aims of countless new educational devices...