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Word: predecessors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRIME MINISTRY: Last Exit | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

This much can be said. He gave Harvard football players a reason for winning--not for the name of Harvard (that had been tried by his predecessor), not for personal glory (he didn't expect to win enough games to make anyone an All-American), but for their coach, Art Valpey

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Valpey Puts Football on Road Back | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

When McCabe received the call to Cambridge in August, he was confronted with a problem radically different from that facing his almost legendary predecessor, "Chief" Boston. While the Harlow system instituted the J. V. as a nearly independent team with a head coach and two aids, Valpey called for jayvees to act part of the time as guinea pigs for the varsity...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Unsung McCabe Comes to Harvard By Way of Tailback, Wingback, Iowa | 11/16/1948 | See Source »

...before him is an exacting one, hedged about by ancient laws and customs. The strict confinement* and almost continual presence of numerous church officials and advisers cost Athenagoras' predecessor his reason. A few months after the election of 51-year-old Maximos V in 1946, a priest came upon him beating the walls of his quarters and crying: "This is not the post for a young man!" For almost three years the church has buzzed with rumors that the mad patriarch would soon be deposed, but only this month -with Maximos shelved in a sinecure-did the twelve metropolitans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Nylon Patriarch | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Munro inherited eleven letter-winners from his predecessor, wee Scot James MacDonald, and has used, with a few modifications, the short pass, English style of play that MacDonald taught. But according to the small coterie of old-time Boston soccer enthusiasts who are the only regular rooters for the team, the Crimson has improved considerably over the past two years. Under Munro, it plays a more coordinated control game than last year, when it won seven and lost...

Author: By Robert Cahswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

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