Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When zealous henchmen were surpassing themselves in obeying Joseph Stalin's orders to collectivize the Russian peasantry by any ruthless means, he brought them up short with his famed statement in the Soviet press in March 1930 entitled "Dizzy From Success." This has since become a method by which the Dictator enables others to bear the blame for his total or partial failures. Last week Stalin was in the sunny Caucasus and rumors that he is suffering from hardening of the cardiac artery were reported in several European newspapers. Meanwhile his Russian henchmen were again definitely "Dizzy From Success...
...that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will add that supremely ubiquitous one about ". . . it's the friendships you make," he will have described a constant just as true at Princeton of Terwillinger...
Another change in the undergraduate of today is his attitude toward extra-curricular activities. He does not, in general, feel that a crowded social and extra-curricular calendar is necessarily a mark of distinction, or of collegiate success. More and more, he is choosing his extra-curricular activities to supplement his college training as a whole--to suit him better for his later, more practical life. Even in recent times, we have heard the complaint that Harvard's training is too academic to meet the demand for practical men in actual life. The undergraduate of today has attempted to correct...
Named corespondent was Actor Philip Merivale, who was bedded with Actress Cooper in the opening scene of last season's Manhattan dramatic success, Call...