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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge's shiny new parking meters were acclaimed a financial success by city fathers yesterday. The gadgets, which started collecting the parking fees of Cambridge motorists in Harvard and Central Squares Monday, gathered an assortment of pennies and nickels totaling $240 in their first day of operation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parking Meters Termed Successful By City Officials Following First Day | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

...million recommended for Greece and Turkey was only a down payment on a program which some experts estimated would cost $4,000,000,000 before the U.S. could even be reasonably sure of its final success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The World & Democracy | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...conference came to close grips with Germany's economic future, which is the real key to success or failure, General Lucius Clay moved in from Berlin to pass Marshall more ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: New Definition Wanted | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...awaken an appetite for Gallic extension courses among those who never thought much of school work. France, a country with a crying need for tourist trade, is less concerned with the intellectual means of its prospective culture crop than it is with the dollars that will accompany it. The success of this program in future years will depend in large measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their scholastic objectives in favor of more bohemian ones, they can quickly transform a good thing into a tragic free-for-all, to the disadvantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Leave | 3/22/1947 | See Source »

Edric A. Weld '46, treasurer of the Student Council, which sponsors the affair each year, urged '50 men to support the planned event. "I feel sure," he said, "that it can be a financial success if it receives support from every member of the class." Biggest affair of the year for Freshmen, the Jubilee offers a gay weekend of social life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Name Jubilee Group in Voting Thursday | 3/21/1947 | See Source »

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