Word: succeed
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Beethoven write very few sonatas for the piano and cello, probably because it is so difficult to coordinate the widely varying sounds of these instruments. But the sonatas nevertheless did succeed in mastering the difficulties of composition imposed by the two instruments...
...Western Hemisphere's biggest railroad* got a new boss last week. To succeed retiring President Robert C. Vaughan, the government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. picked Donald Gordon, 47, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, whose only direct connection with railroading had been as a passenger...
...McCormick, 38, a member of the SEC staff for 15 years. Husky, able Accountant Ed McCormick has headed up many an SEC stock flotation inquiry, including that of the Tucker Corp., some of whose officers are under indictment in Chicago (TIME, June 20). Also nominated to the commission to succeed Robert K. McConnaughey, who resigned last summer, was Washington Lawyer Donald C. Cook, 40, onetime SEC staffer, longtime Department of Justice aide. Later, the five-man commission will elect as chairman one of the three Democrats - McCormick, Cook, or Commissioner Paul Rowen...
...issue came to a head Thursday when the board met to elect a new president to succeed Gilmour, who is resigning because of a heavy work schedule. At that time Shafer's supporters claimed a majority of the Advocate's 18 editors, although not the 75 percent required by the magazine's constitution...
...pressures of population in the Far East are an important reason for the misery of the people and their discontent, Thomas said, and the problem of population control in these countries is a crucial one. The East's present great desire for mechanization will not succeed in raising standards of living unless the resulting population increase is curbed, he stated...