Word: successful
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Comparison between Soviet and U.S. schools is impossible, Conant said, since one can only contrast their relative usefulnesses to the two countries. The success of each can be measured only in the degree to which it produces adherents of communism or democracy...
...fact remains that, for all the team's success and for all the inherent appeal of the game, soccer continues to be played before a select few--coach Bruce Munro, substitutes, and the participants' girl friends and immediate families. For most others, the entire game is an anathema. Harvard men hesitate to inflict their dates with the discomfort of sitting through four 22-minute quarters of a largely incomprehensible contest, usually in the cold of a Saturday morning...
...fiction. "We submit, rather . . . that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present, the means of detecting them is now at hand . . . We therefore feel that a discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is hard to estimate; but if we never search, the chance of success is zero...
With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle...
Soon the backslid heroine becomes a famous gypsy entertainer, travels through Europe from success to success and from sin (Gustavo Rojo) to sin (Dennis King). Crowd scene follows crowd scene: theaters, bullfights, battles. She finds her dragoon again at the side of the "Iron Duke" just before the Battle of Waterloo, which is thrown in for good measure. In the end, of course, she goes back to the convent, and at this point it becomes painfully apparent that the moviemakers intend, even at the risk of sacrilege, to have their unleavened bread and eat it too. But after more than...