Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute's director, Oppie still intends to find time to teach and learn. His predecessor's Oxford prints are gone from the director's office; in their place is a wall-length blackboard, covered with equations. And three afternoons a week, out in the new wing, Oppie and 15 young friends can be found talking over elementary-particle physics, explaining things to each other...
Rossiter learned to play the pipes while in Oregon about three years ago from Major M. Russell Todd, who taught him Army skirling as it is done in His Majesty's 16th Canadian Scottish Regiment. This training gives Rossiter a different bagpipe technique from his Harvard predecessor Leigh Cross '51, who was an exponent of the non-military style...
...Order. Husky, slim-waisted Lawyer Carlos Prío might be just the man to bring about a change after four years of his predecessor's austerity. Socially popular, Prío always worked hard & long before setting out with his wife Mary for an evening of parties. Unlike high-minded Grau, who refused to believe that his appointees might graft and soldier on the job, Prío harbored no such illusions...
...modest way, Raphael Demos is an American success story. A Greek immigrant who worked his way as a janitor to his Harvard Ph.D., Demos now holds Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). But in the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Demos has an un-American doctrine to advocate: it is high time, he thinks, that educators paid some attention to failure stories...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 52, dapper, coal-black President of the Liberian Republic; and Antoinette Padmore, thirtyish, granddaughter of Liberian ex-President Arthur Barclay and cousin of Tubman's predecessor, Edwin Barclay; he for the third time, she for the first; in Monrovia, Liberia...