Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years at Boston's corruption-laced City Hall, City Clerk John B. Hynes had learned something about running a big city and plenty about how not to run one. He had most of the necessary equipment for political success in Boston (he was Irish, Catholic and Democratic), and he harbored little love for the shopworn, sticky-fingered machine of Mayor James Michael Curley...
Stravinsky: Orpheus (the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). The tight, dry, subdued but dramatic music for the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet performed with great success at Manhattan's City Center last year (TIME, May 10, 1948). Performance and recording: excellent...
T.W.A., which has sputtered into one deficit after another since 1946, last week gave its stockholders a pleasant surprise. President Ralph S. Damon reported a profit of $3,931,910 before taxes for the first nine months of 1949, partly owing to the success of T.W.A.'s low-fare coach flights from New York to Chicago, and Kansas City to Los Angeles. With an average load of 80.5% of capacity, the coaches made up much of the revenue lost last winter when short-haul DC-35 sometimes carried only two or three passengers a trip. Explained Damon...
...concensus was best expressed by Red Smith of the New York Herald Tribune, who telegraphed the CRIMSON, "Unable to see how either team can win but wish both success...
...requirement that all undergraduates do a specified amount of reading from a list each summer for a fall examination has been termed a success, as has the substitution of visual techniques for texts and use of source documents in teaching of history...