Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fritz Haber spent years after World War I trying to extract gold from the ocean to pay off his country's war reparations. He failed, and finally gave up the struggle. But in Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry) another German chemist tells how he took a long step toward success, using subtle modern techniques...
...Landwehr could be heard holding its rehearsals. The remarks of Chief U.S. Negotiator Christian A. Herter were punctuated by the faint oom-pah-pahs of the Landwehr as he warned: "The longer we procrastinate in setting the formulas by which these negotiations will proceed, the more we risk the success of the entire negotiations...
...accurate measurements of achievement. Some Strivers get all A's, some get all A's and B's, some get grades that settle around B-/C+; but a single student's grades generally do not fluctuate very much. Their patterned method of working meets with a consistent degree of success. Given the nature of Harvard markings, a Striver rarely flunks out; more likely a bad Striver gets a C- and the listless comment "dull...
...they too meet with a fairly consistent degree of success. Some get into group one, have papers called "brilliant" and teachers who adore them ruefully and become as a result extreme cynics. Some get consistent Gentlemen's C's. Others spend every weekend in Peru, pay someone to take their exams for them, and get bounced out. In every case, their grades make sense, as a measure of innate ability, cleverness, or writing skill. A bad mark is a slap in the face. If they are in A-1 condition on exam day, or hit on a really neat trick...
Skippers' marks are always infinitely chaotic and variable. They range from groups 2 to 6 from semester to semester; from A to E in a single marking period. When a Skipper has his moments of success, he sees it as "good luck," a freak communion with a grader, an unexpected compliment. And when he happens to flunk out (with marks like two A's and two E's, his low marks do not faze him at all, since he thinks they are so crazy. He has a moderately unshakable estimate of his own intelligence and a measure of satisfaction with...