Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first clue to the success of this plan will be this afternoon's game, but the major test in Harvard's attempt to get back to the top of the Ivies will be the contest at Columbia Friday afternoon...
Gardner emphasized that the success of his study depends on the group being accepted as part of the tribe. To do this they will spend six months wandering across the semi-desert plains of Nigeria with a band of fifteen to twenty Fulani. They will eat Fulani food, dress according to tribal custom, and probably even herd sheep...
...reward these school districts which demonstrate by objectively measurable criteria that they are doing an outstanding job in helping the children of the poor. Such criteria migiht include the improvement in the percentage of poor children who complete high school; their improvement in achievement tests; and their vigor and success in achieving meaningful integration for racial balance...
Bird, so does her love of the land. Though she is generally credited with inspiring the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 ("the Billboard Bill"), she has no official authority. The proper measure of her success is the grassroots response she evokes. From businessmen and mayors to garden-clubbers and oldtime conservationists, she is receiving a rousing chorus of "America the Beautiful"-or, more precisely, "America Must Be More Beautiful...
Everyone agreed that it was a jolly good success, and Dr. Bowes, who hopes to release the recording through Britain's Decca record company if the quality is good enough, celebrated by buying a Rolls-Royce for $15,800 to "run around England in." Jack Greene-stone, the orchestra manager who arranged the session, was left nursing a new pent-up urge. Mused he: "I'll wager there are a lot of wealthy Americans who would like to conduct a symphony. It could become the new In Christmas present to give your friends -your own Beethoven...