Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parents-the first time she had been hostess to so many people. She had already found out one thing about the job of an unmarried (and so far unattached) woman executive: "I am not only the president, but the president's wife as well...
...girls. She taught Cavalier and Puritan poetry and early English literature, "with Beowulf tucked in." In seven years she became one of the best teachers the school had, and when she went on to Columbia for her degree (John Bigelow was written for her Ph.D. dissertation), she did so well that other teaching appointments began to come easy. She was the first woman in the history department of New York's City College, went next to the New Jersey College for Women and finally to Brooklyn ("I was sold to the Dodgers...
...heard of two years ago, seemed already to be an old hand. As she conducted her first chapel, almost lost behind the great lectern, it was as if she had been a president for years. Wellesleyites decided that Margaret Clapp, in their chosen phrase, already looked like a well-rounded "First Lady...
...more conventional psychologists who say that Salter's cures prove nothing about the soundness of his theory, Salter retorts that the best proof of a theory is how it works in practice. In his own practice, Pavlov's theory has worked well -well enough to give Author Salter great self-confidence...
...committee was impressed when Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan marched in with an armful of facts & figures on how well a program of industrialization with U.S. techniques and capital had been working in Latin America. Brannan brushed away the possibility that industrialization of backward nations would only build up competition for U.S. goods. "Only the developed areas," said he, "are good customers. [Developed] countries making up only 11% of the world's population are providing us with more than half of our market...