Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world is open," T. H. Sanders, professor of Accounting at the Business School, told the conference. Success comes to the man who "shows the firm exactly what he can do for it," he declared, listing "creative capacity" as the most important quality for a would-be business...
...necessity for practical ideas as a pre-requisite for success was also expounded by Nicholas E. Peterson, vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston, who advised as a preliminary step, "Know exactly what line you want to enter, and then study its particular functions and developments...
...easiest method of learning them. They can point out, and rightly, that getting an education is not the same thing as playing a football game--the purpose is not primarily competitive and therefore "rules of the game" are slightly ridiculous. Education is supposed to be an instrument of success living, economically and socially, and to a certain extent an end in itself...
...churches could not cope with the moral issue of slavery and therefore channeled their energies into "a scrupulous legalism, expressed in extravagant rules of Sabbath observance and a prurient attitude toward sex problems." In the North, evangelicalism "degenerated into that mixture of religious sentiment and the worship of prosperity, success and comfort which inevitably . . . obscures, rather than clarifies, the real issues of life...
...Modern man's faith in progress is at such complete variance with a history which presents him with ever more perplexing issues . . . that the faith is becoming discredited, and disillusion and despair follow in its wake. Liberal Christianity is involved in this disillusionment. Having sought to make a success story of the biblical history of a Crucified Savior . . . it finds itself unable to cope with the tragic experiences...