Word: successively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time retain the favor of citizens who think that a thing called the Equalization Fee spells emancipation for Honest John Farmer. Just exactly what Honest John Farmer thinks about it is hard to tell, because he raises such a variety of crops with such various success that his attitude toward national farm relief legislation varies greatly and his many spokesmen often disagree. But the new McNary Bill, not to be confused with the oldtime McNary-Haugen Bill of which this was a 1928 model not yet hyphenated, applied to all farm products except meats, vegetables and fruits. In general...
Ever since college graduates, began going into business, much has been said and many opinions aired about the value of college training in business procedure. Until recently the dominant note seems to have been that college training is by no means necessary to business success, and some have gone so far as to say that it is almost a detriment. In contrast to the professions, it has been felt that a business career does not require intellectual keenness of the sort that colleges seek to develop in their students. In this connection, therefore, the conclusions reached by Walter S. Gifford...
...Gifford, on the basis of a systematic and statistical analysis of the personnel of the Boll System, has shown that success among the college graduates employed, has come in greatest measure to the men with the best college records. The relation seems to be something more than a coincidence, wherefore, if Mr. Gifford's observations among the men in one company may be taken as representative of other cases, it seems to follow that scholastic attitude is in the majority of instances the precursor of success in business...
...recently concluded season has seen a recuperation, and "Not Now,--Later" deserves to be ranked with the best of the Pudding opera. It was tuneful, well staged, and had its moments of humor. With these elements to support it, success was within its grasp. The unanimous opinion of those who saw it was, that far more than in recent years, had that success been achieved...
...unwelcome pleasure, therefore, to see an amateur performance which for its success rests not on its amateurishness but rather on its sound theatrical value. The Pudding shows will draw them in regardless of real merit all along the tour and in Cambridge because of their appeal to Harvard followers. They do not need to be hits to have full houses. In view of this, it is gratifying to witness at the hands of this organization a production which can be placed with the best of college theatricals...