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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 10--By this morning a mighty Thor-Able rocket may well be on its 2 1/2-day flight toward the moon. Provided, that is, all goes well--and the odds on even partial success are rated no better than...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Air Force May Fire Thor-Able In Exploratory Shot to the Moon; U.S. Ready to Suspend Atom Tests | 10/11/1958 | See Source »

President Pusey emphasized, in a letter to City Manager John J. Curry '19, that the University is "eager to explore any and all ideas which seem to have a constructive end." Pusey also noted the difficulties involved in promoting the success of a parking area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University May Build Parking Lot With City | 10/9/1958 | See Source »

...honored place kick for one point, or the run or pass for two. The rule was designed to cut down tie games, give leading teams a chance to exert extra pressure and trailing teams a better chance to catch up. Most teams settled for the safer kick (chances of success: about 65%) rather than risk the run or pass (chances: about 35%), especially if they scored first. But in five major games the new rule was decisive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Two-Point Conversion | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Giant Gulf Oil Corp. announced that it will analyze the speeches, voting and attendance records of "Congressmen; then Gulf management will report its findings to its 161,000 shareholders, employees and dealers. If the program proves a success, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), among other companies, will copy it. Top executives from U.S. business are now forming conservative but nonpartisan Americans for Constitutional Action to endorse pro-business candidates. Headed by Admiral Ben Moreell, who retires this week as chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., ACA counts among its trustees Armstrong Cork Co. Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; former Sears, Roebuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS IN POLITICS: Out of the Background onto the Stump | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...also glad that Mr. Titcomb thought their production an artistic success. What I would question here is not his opinion but his logic. It does not follow that, if the same exacting play had been produced ten years before by a totally different group, it would have been equally successful. What it would have been like, for better or worse, we shall never know. But we may well regard the Theater Workshop's change of mind as a responsible act of self-criticism. Harry Levin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PALE CAST OF THOUGHT | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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