Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Depth, spirit, and unity were responsible for the Crimson's success. "The coach Nathaniel L. Harris Jr. '52) was able to play three or four lines in almost every game without risking the team's chances for victory," Kent Parrot, first one center, said yesterday...
...behind, gets tagged as a dullard, loses confidence in his ability to compete. In a drastic attempt to check that slide, North Carolina's public-school system is pulling such "underachievers" out of their home schools and into a costly public boarding school in Winston-Salem -with remarkable success...
...experiment in education in America today." The thrill, he explains, comes in plucking the slipping student out of his failure-filled environment at the eighth-grade level-"about the last point of intervention where you can hope to make a difference"-and helping him discover that "the experience of success is exhilarating...
This shorthand road to success has brought handsome Margery Hurst the rewards she feels she so richly deserves. She lives with her lawyer-manufacturer husband and two teen-age daughters in a 22-room country home in Surrey, has a Mayfair flat, a Bentley, a swimming pool, a butler and a lady's maid. But her proudest possession remains the Brook Street Bureau. "I have built up this business on my own," she says. "Absolutely on my own. It is a one-woman show...
...flush of success, Butler sent poorly officered troops into combat at Big Bethel-the war's first battle-and got whipped. Though Big Bethel was soon forgotten in the greater Union calamity at Bull Run, it established Butler's reputation as an inept field commander. But when New Orleans was taken, Butler was sent to take over the occupation...