Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring was just around the corner. The U.S. Military Government felt the seasonal compulsion, and broke out with bright buds of optimism. First, Colonel Frank L. Howley, governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
...took him ten years to get the philosophy post, and only a few more to become the biggest drawing-card on the faculty. Characteristically, he did not relish so much success: large classes obliged him to give lectures; he preferred small groups...
...Student Council does not believe that the true reasons behind these moves have been made sufficiently clear. Personnel shortages, financial pressure, and lack of success of the system are the reasons most commonly advanced. But discrepancies between the actions of departments where similar conditions might be presupposed, plus information gained in personal interviews with Faculty members, have forced the Student Council to conclude that in many cases the cuts are also due to a considerable antipathy among the Faculty towards tutorial itself, and an even greater resignation to the apparent fact that, for one reason or another the system...
Lincoln was such a success that everybody wanted to get in the act. Kids at Lincoln made drums from coconuts and formed their own symphony orchestras. Tenth-graders solemnly analyzed the biases of the daily newspapers. Fourth-graders built their own bank of plywood and paid for their lunches by check." Older students made trips to T.V.A...
Irked by such talk, the Administration has changed the policy on surpluses abroad. Under a directive from President Truman, the Army and Navy will bring home surplus goods in the Pacific, instead of letting them sit while the Foreign Liquidation Commission (which handles surpluses), hunts buyers, usually with no success...