Word: precursor
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...Whoever will not be the hammer will in history be the anvil . . . The sword was always the precursor of the plow, and if one speaks at all of human rights, then war deserves in this single case the highest right . . . Every healthy folk sees in the acquisition of territory nothing sinful but something natural...
Died. John B. (for Bright) Kennedy, 67, radio's pungent Garroway precursor, onetime managing editor of Collier's, who moderated Mutual's folksy People's Rally in the 1930s, gave the first network airing to scores of notables, including Al Smith; following intestinal surgery; in Toronto...
Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
What critics exhume is seldom the writer who was buried. Where Goethe found perversity and disease, critics today find "true greatness," "a hero of the modern spirit," a precursor of Stendhal, Freud, D. H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka. Thomas Mann, Germany's greatest 20th century novelist, calls Von Kleist in the preface (written in 1955) to this book a "storyteller of the very first order." In this first English translation of his collected stories, the proofs are not always convincing. The compulsive violence that runs through these tales (notably Michael Kohlhaas, The Earthquake in Chile...
...Medicine. In 1958 (most recent year for which full figures are available), 552 U.S. deaths were officially listed as caused by measles, as against 255 by poliomyelitis. Measles kills in many ways. The virus is sometimes the direct cause of fatal pneumonia, but more often it is the precursor of a bacterial infection. Measles also has a tendency to attack the middle ear, which may lead to permanent deafness (occasionally total) on both sides...