Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notre Dame's saddest football season in history (2 won, 8 lost) had many an Irish alumnus-including Brennan's predecessor and mentor Frank Leahy-screaming for the scalp of young (28) Coach Terry Brennan. But Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., silenced the pack by giving Brennan a timely vote of confidence: "Coach Brennan was engaged in 1954 on a verbal agreement for three years . . . we are now re-engaging him for next year...
...Committee, was the failure of Soviet planners to stay within the bounds of "the real possibilities of securing enough material and financial resources for fulfillment of the plans." Out of the chief planning job went chill-eyed First Deputy Premier Maxim Saburov, apparently only shunted aside, unlike his predecessor Voznesensky, who was executed in 1949. The new planner is scholarly looking First Deputy Premier Mikhail Pervukhin, 52, who has risen high as an industrial manager (the approved biographies, which always make top Reds humble sons of the proletariat, list him as a blacksmith's son, which...
Jordan brought from Amherst a style of play not unlike that of his predecessor--the single-wing formation, with an unbalanced line to the right. He also brought with him the reputation of being capable of altering his style of play to suit his material...
...suffrage and a host of other causes. It published Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy scenes. In 1919 the magazine was sold to Crowell Publishing Co. (whose predecessor firm had bought Companion in 1885), turned from art and exposes to cartoons and light fiction. Circulation tumbled, recovered under able Editor William Ludlow Chenery (1925-43), started down again after World...
...After cortisone came hydrocortisone and prednisone, each better than its predecessor, but researchers still dug frantically for a hormone which would suppress inflammation (especially in arthritis and rheumatism) without undesirable side effects. A team from Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and the Hospital for Special Surgery reports one which shows great promise in the first patients treated. Named triamcinolone, made by Lederle Laboratories, it is so far available only in minute quantities for testing...