Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury, whose agent seems to be replacing the ubiquitous G-Man as Public Friend Number One. The T-Men are after Cagney for various crimes ranging up to train robbery; he is assisted by his aging mother who is determined that her son should achieve social success. Cagney is less amply helped by Virginia Mayo. Miss Mayo alternates her finely-built presence between an un-Johnston office night-gown and a turtle-neck sweater, between Cagney and the cops and his cohorts, depending how the legal wind is blowing...
...conference also heard Frederick Mosteller, lecturer on Mechanical Statistics, predict that new Large-scale Digital Calculating machinery may soon enable scientists to predict mathematically the chances of success of a given marriage or the degree of readjustment to the community that a given parolee will make when he is released from prison...
There are so many variables that must be taken into account in a given problem in the Social Sciences, Mosteller stated, that before the advent of the Mark III it was impossible to predict statistically the chances for marital success...
...Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add to the vigor of the Western experience. He wanted a college that was free from the outworn traditions of older universities, especially one that would, in his words, "qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life." He felt that colleges had become too far removed from American life. The new university would try to add practical knowledge to cultural experience...
From its start the Seminar has been sponsored by the Harvard Student Council and supported entirely by private donations. The absence of any official connection with the government is becoming even more important for the Seminar's success. Facts about American society are becoming increasingly available in Europe through such channels as the Army Information Centers in occupied countries. What distinguishes the Seminar is the presence here of American student administrators and outstanding teachers from all over the United States--non Army and non-tourist individuals who have created in this eighteenth century castle the free and democratic atmosphere...