Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Castle, Del., where the whipping post contrasts strangely with a "model'' prison system. Warden Elmer Joseph Leach, denouncer of whippings which he has to administer, has developed at New Castle the unique plan of his predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes...
...Laborite Prime Minister of Australia, moved out last week from his home in Melbourne to Canberra, the Kangaroo Continent's flat and dusty capital. Scorning what he termed "unnecessary expenditure," Mr. Scullin refused to occupy the official Prime Minister's residence, just vacated by his reactionary Nationalist predecessor Stanley Melbourne
...denounced his predecessor for ordering mattresses (TIME, Oct. 21), will continue the tradition of keeping Hungarian soldiers "hard" by making them sleep on bags stuffed with straw or worse. †Plays written by the Countess Margit Bethlen and produced in Italy are sure of extravagant praise from Dictator Mussolini, now angling for an alliance with Dictator Bethlen...
...great boon to Plebe life, this individual recognition, for it usually means that the Plebe is taken under the wing of some upperclassman who helps him out of difficulties and gives him advice. When the Plebe "goes deficient"--is below average--in academics, he usually goes to his predecessor, a man from the same town or district, and gets coaching or council on what...
...second English printer, several of whose editions are being shown, was Wynkyn de Worde, about 1510. He inherited his types from Caxton, and a noteworthy fact is that he adopted his predecessor's complete heading, and added to it special designs both above and below...