Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survives the other six will follow his trail, and if he fails the other six will be there to carry on. And beyond, with success, lie higher and headier space flights, perhaps even to the moon...
...first rich weeks of the 86th Congress, unfolding the morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on the filibuster and the housing bill, were the talk of Washington. But by last week Lyndon Johnson had become accustomed to finding more headaches in headlines than he had known in years...
Positive results of the PBH anti-discriminatory rulling are hard to assess, Mrs. Killborne stated. She explained she has no way of knowing how many people have used the Registry's lists to obtain rooms to rent. No Negro has yet reported success in using the list, she said...
...success of the varsity depends to a large extent upon its opposition. Yale lost its famous Olympic stern pair through graduation, and several other key men through injuries, but they too have a squad with a depth which could easily turn out a powerful varsity boat. On last year's performance both Cornell, which swept the IRA regatta on Lake Cayuga last June, and Pennsylvania must be rated as strong rivals...
...leader may look at his grinding roommate and feel the disdain for his single-mindedness that his academic roommate may feel for his unacademic pursuits. The student-leader, in absorption in something not at all academic, becomes, to a certain extent, alienated from an academic community. In colleges where success is the ideal for the majority of the student body, the student-leader is placed in a plane above the majority, which feel a degree of awe toward him; at Harvard, whre intellecual proficiency is the ideal, the minority student-leaders are regarded as perhaps a step below that...