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1923 W. Stevens Let. 11 Feb. (1967) 236 Aside from this absurd hero-worship, or success-worship, the town is purely a business place.

1946 Nature 17 Aug. 242/2 A success-rate of syphilis prevention of more than 97 per cent was claimed to be unequalled by any other mode of treatment.

1949 R. K. Merton Social Theory ii. iv. 136 Despite our persisting open-class-ideology, advance toward the success-goal is relatively rare..for those armed with little formal education.

1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 35/2 They remain avid customers for the success manuals and beauty treatments which by themselves constitute a large line of merchandise.

1955 A. Koestler Trail of Dinosaur 93 The same is true of obsessional success-hunters in every field.

1957 R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) ii.v. 170 The distribution of success-values among economic and social strata.

1965 H. Hendin in A. Giddens Stud. in Social & Polit. Theory ix. 311 His legal ambitions were excessive and he found it impossible to compromise with his grandiose success fantasies.

1977 Time 13 June 44/2 They are an uncommonly interesting lot, whose lives and habits illuminate what achievement means today in the society that invented the success ethic.