Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important cause of the breakdown of the Freshman Advisers. Throughout the history of the system the position has been regarded as a burden to be discharged as perfunctorily as possible. The man who really takes his work in this field seriously and meets with any measure of success, of whom Walsh Hammond, and Graustein are the most conspicuous examples, deserves to be placed with the Agassiz flowers as Harvard's outstanding rarities. Not until be receives a reward corresponding to the value of his work will the Adviser go ahead with any enthusiasm or initiative...
Every Saturday Night (Twentieth Century-Fox) bathes its audience in an atmosphere of homey sweetness which should make the picture a success at any neighborhood playhouse. Mr. Evers (Jed Prouty) is the father of a "typical American family." He has a spry old mother (Florence Roberts) whose two loves are slang and coffee, a complacent wife (Spring Byington), five children who exemplify all the traditionally wholesome traits of youth. Bonnie (June Lang) is the 18-year-old apple of her father's eye except that she goes around with Clark Newall (Thomas Beck), spoiled son of the idle rich...
First National's largest stockholder is Chairman George Fisher Baker, son and namesake of the bank's longtime head. The Baker holdings are around 25,000 shares, one-fourth of the stock outstanding. According to the late George Fisher Baker, a prime factor in success is SILENCE. Reared in this tradition, the present Mr. Baker is no public figure, makes news more frequently as yachtsman than banker. Now 57, he went to Harvard (Class of 1899), worked in J. P. Morgan & Co. for a year, has been in the family bank ever since. Few years ago he built...
Long before Black Bart's time, Wells Fargo was supreme in Western Express, Adams having gone under in financial collapse in 1855. Thereafter, Wells Fargo had only to contend with bandits, did so tooth & nail with great success. Then, with horrible suddenness, it succumbed to a group of bandits who held up, not the stages, but Wells Fargo itself...
...judgment will be made of the work of every individual. In the four years of undergraduate life not only can individual careers be made much as they are in the outside world, but the class as a whole will be judged favorably or the reverse, directly according to the success of its separate members...