Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conditioning was a large factor in the Crimson's success. In Ivy competition, squads are limited to 16, and as the game progresses, endurance becomes highly important. The varsity's better physical shape was clearly evident in the fourth quarter...
...Journal's success story parallels the prodigious post-Depression growth of the business community, where stocks and bonds traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone are worth some $382 billion today, v. $96 billion just two decades ago. Its high status is a far cry from its humble and parochial birth. Brainchild of three young men named Charles H. Dow, Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones...
...herself boasts a villa on Lake Starnberg with two cabin cruisers and a speedboat, a villa on the Riviera, a chalet in Switzerland, a stable of expensive cars, a Skye terrier named Putzi and a black poodle named Wutzi. It is all confirmation of her own straightforward formula for success: "All I want to see in my movies is what I enjoy seeing myself-a pretty girl, a handsome man, a little dancing, a little laughter, a few tears, and lots of heart...
Moody and brooding, Room at the Top looks critically at the struggle for social success in an English manufacturing town. In doing so, it not only condemns class structure, but at the same time attacks class consciousness by proving that its hero's flaw is one of fighting status rather than ignoring...
Perhaps the man most essential to the Crimson's success was center halfback Rapp. In the midst of the varsity's tentative first-half efforts, he avoided disaster with his heads-up defensive play and sharp passes. Concentrating on offense during the last two periods, he set up the goal that put the Crimson ahead to stay, and was instrumental in keeping the ball in B.U. territory...