Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean David staggered his career with eight years of teaching and learning at the School and fifteen subsequent years of fortune-accumulating in Manhattan financial circles. At 52 he is simultaneously "the" reason for the Business School's zooming success and a director of such enterprises as Standard Brands, General Electric, and R. H. Macy...
Eager to push forward with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security...
...Bostonians have invariably been kind to painters who were kind to them. In colonial days, each year brought a new crop of self-made gentry who wanted pictures of themselves in lace and ruffles to send home to England or to hang in their own parlors as proof of success. They cared more for the lace than for the likeness. Portraiture, wrote James Thomas Flexner in a history of colonial painting (First Flowers of Our Wilderness, Houghton Mifflin; $10) out last week, became "a profession before any other American...
When the venture proved a success, he bought ten acres, then more, on the south side of Kansas City. With a partner, John Cyrus Taylor, now president of the J. C. Nichols Co. (Nichols is chairman), he worked at building sidewalks, sewers, etc. by day, sold lots in the evening...
When the old man ran out of money, the Beautiful Daughter married the Promising Young Man. But all she wanted was Success, while he sought Virtue. So she heartlessly cast him aside and married a rich merchant in another city. Some 20 years later, when she came back to live in the beastly old castle, Virtue triumphed-by thwarting the Beautiful Daughter (now a beastly old woman) in her design to wreck her own son's happiness...