Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years younger than the Youngest Senator.) He wanted to go on with his teaching and his law practice. It was for that, and not to be "available" for greater things, that he relinquished the district attorneyship of Dane County, which he helped a young assistant in his office to inherit at the last election...
...externally the 1300 cadets are one perfectly drilled and orgainzed body; their individuality is merged into the strong and envied West Point type; and they inherit the long scroll of the Corps's distinguished record
Expected. By the abdicated Maharaja of Indore, and his spouse Nancy Anne (nee Miller) of Seattle, a babe. Should it prove male, the he-babe would inherit many a million of golden rupees, but not the Throne of Indore, which is now held by an elder son of the abdicated Potentate...
...Finance Committee he helped frame the Federal Reserve and Farm Loan Acts. His horizon was widened by his experience on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He became an intimate of President Wilson. After the War, his interests definitely transcended Oklahoma affairs. He had an organized boom to inherit the Wilson mantle at the National Democratic Convention of 1920. He all but joined the La Follette movement four years later, after his "not serious" desire for the Democratic nomination had been balked a second time. "I am and always have been an Insurgent," he once said...
Should Lord Burghley's father, the 5th Marquess of Exeter, die, the young Justice of the Peace would take his seat in the House of Lords, inherit estates of 27,000 acres, and become both Hereditary Grand Almoner to His Majesty & Custos Rotulorum of the Soke of Peterborough...