Word: successor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Gilbert, who was confirmed as chairman of the northern New England region last Saturday, will still sit on the Annex Council as second vice-president of Student Government, but will pass on the paperwork and organization of Radcliffe's NSA project--a tri-nations tour--to her successor...
...after 18 years: he would succeed Vannevar Bush as boss of the nation's military research organization, the Research and Development Board. Faculty members, some with tears in their eyes, rose to salute Compton after he made the announcement. Then Compton introduced his 44-year-old successor, Dr. James R. Killian...
...participants being aware of it. with this interesting idea in mind, M. Cocteau has chosen to present the Tristan-Iseult legend in contemporary settings and in something of the same grand-manner that was to be so successful in his later film "Beauty and the Beast." But, unlike its successor, "The Eternal Return" asks the audience to accept its fairy tale as readily as if it were in today's headlines: "IRATE MATE SPRINGS LOVE TRAP--Wife and Lover Found Souped-up on Love Potion...
...West at Bay might as well be called The U.S. on the Spot. For Miss Ward perceives correctly that it is up to the U.S., as Britain's successor, to redress the world's balance
Germany's old Paul von Hindenburg had offered some sound deathbed advice to his successor (according to some evidence revealed at a war-crimes trial), but up & coming young Adolf Hitler had ignored the warning "not to trust the Italians, and to keep peace with Britain...