Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a year of verbal skirmishes and legislative battles, the anti-underpass forces look forward optimistically to the next legislative session, which begins in January. With the new support they say has been promised them, they predict success before actual construction is scheduled to begin in the spring
...riot. Bonfires in the Yard brought over 1000 men from the freshman dormitories and the Houses. Bursar's cards were seized in droves. But a few plucky students managed to evade the proctors. As the CRIMSON reported. "One man who failed to have his card was searched without success. When the Yard policeman thereupon claimed that he would remember his face, the freshman made an atrocious face and left the scene with rapidity...
...Such findings were hardly helpful to the record industry in its search for a solid money-making groove. And then a new type of rock song began to climb the charts. Now it is the rock fan's wish to die that is supposed to account for the success of hot-rod and surfin' songs, a great tonic to the industry for all of a year...
...golden ruler by which a man's business success is most often measured is income. This week Britain's Associated Industrial Consultants Ltd. will bring out the most thorough report to date on who makes how much in Europe. After surveying the middle managers of 462 companies in seven key countries, the questioners concluded that the best-paid managers are the English and the worst-rewarded are the Dutch, who have a surfeit of management talent...
...mother commented: "Drawing-rooms are always tidy.") Soon she was dispatching poems to Scribner's Magazine with her calling card attached, and when she began to be published she learned her first hard truth about old New York society: it had no use for brainy women. "My literary success," she wrote, "puzzled and embarrassed my old friends far more than it impressed them. None of my relations ever spoke to me of my books, either to praise or blame-they simply ignored them." Her marriage, at 23, to Boston Banker Edward Wharton, did not improve matters...