Word: winning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Win Friends. In Houston, Harris County Tax Collector Carl S. Smith hired the Dale Carnegie Institute to train his 125 clerks to make taxpaying "as pleasant as possible under the circumstances by giving courteous, polite and smiling service...
...brother at the Ritz in London and have a talk with his doctor. Society reporters knew him as the Hon. Peter Beatty, one of Britain's "most eligible bachelors." Sportwriters had called him "Lucky" Beatty ever since 1938 when he became the youngest (28) owner ever to win the Derby at Epsom Downs (with Bois Roussel). In that same year Peter's Foxglove II (purchased the night before the race from his good friend Prince Aly Khan) took the Gold Cup at Ascot. On that occasion, Peter invited 500 guests, including the Duke of Kent, to celebrate...
...football team didn't manufacture an upset yesterday, but the soccer team did. With a goal in the opening minute of the second overtime period, the Crimson booters sneaked out a 1 to 0 win over league leading Princeton yesterday on the Business School Field...
These losses may not completely thwart the Crimson's chances, however, because in their win against Exeter the Yardlings, relied largely on the play of Berk Johnson, Bengt Sandberg, and Charley Ufford--all of whom will play today...
...food is late or if the Tigers win a football game the immates start banging on their plates chanting for a waiter or counting out a score...