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Word: successful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobile as a badge of success is fading out," says Chicago Sociologist Reuel Denney. "Too many people are wearing the badge, and it doesn't mean anything any more. The buyer also has the feeling that he's not getting enough out of it because of this obsolescence in styling. There's not enough rarity and not enough enjoyment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: On the Slow Road | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...Players intend to produce their first show about July 1, and will plan a new play weekly for eight or nine weeks. "If a show is a success," Claman asserted, "we'll probably hold it over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Student Theatre Organization To Present Weekly Summer Plays | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...recording is very good, especially for a company that has not had uniform success; the slightly blurred effect is intended to approximate the resonance of a stone church, which it does, for better or worse, depending on one's taste. Listened to in sections, this is a satisfying record, and is certainly worth owning, if only for the Stabat Mater...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Sacred Polyphony | 5/9/1958 | See Source »

...relative success or failure of the voyage itself, however, is not the central issue. "Eliminating nuclear warfare is the most important practical issue in the world," wrote Huntington last summer, "I do what I do because it is the way I feel about it. My feeling is not the most important thing in the world--it may be all wrong--but it is the best I have. If everyone else in the world will do above all else what he thinks is right about this most important issue, then it shall be properly met. I hope I am a part...

Author: By Victoria Thompson, | Title: 'Golden Rule' | 5/8/1958 | See Source »

Mansley (gray homburg protected by black umbrella) watched wordless as sundry crews in sweat shirts tried with damp success to pull canvas canopies over their partitions...

Author: By George Apley, | Title: Ulysses | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

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