Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empress will make her maiden voyage next spring and will sail weekly between Canada and Britain, catering especially to the economy-minded family trade. She will carry only 150 first-class passengers, but will have tourist accommodations for 900. Her predecessor of the same name was famed for her luxurious ballrooms and bars; the new Empress will advertise its battery of washing machines, dryers and ironing rooms for parents traveling with children...
...charter, is to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten . . . international peace." In practice, this means that the S.G. may inject himself into any international dispute he thinks he can help to settle. Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's Norwegian predecessor, sometimes gave the impression that he thought he could settle anything. Earnest and eager, Lie once hawked his personal plan for 20 years of peace from one world capital to another. He got nowhere with it. Ruefully, Trygve Lie warned his successor: "This is the most impossible job in the world...
...will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief-that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every type, decade...
Brower's decision to relax the rule came as a result of near record temperatures in the high 80's and a consequent flood of requests from members of Adams House. He followed a precedent set by his predecessor, the late David M. Little '17, who introduced dining hall informality...
...great thing about Walter Alston is that he endures. The Bronx cheers of second-guessing fans bounce off his hide, and needling from his limber-lipped predecessor Charlie Dressen does not faze him at all. His patience is paying off: he has built a team of winners out of last year's so-so Brooklyn Dodgers...