Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oriental scholar and linguist, Allison is one of State's best-informed experts on the Far East, but lacks the drive of his predecessor...
...predecessor survey was conducted by TIME in 1940, and was published in 1941 as The U.S. College Graduate. The statistics we gathered then-on age, sex, earnings, family status and occupation-only served to whet our curiosity further about the nation's 2,700,000 graduates (4,700,000 by the time of our new study). We said then it was "a beginning to a larger continuing examination of the function of higher education in the workings of a democracy." After World War II, with enrollment of veterans swamping registrars, and with unprecedented numbers of our college-age population...
Governor Stevenson travels his state twice as much as his unlamented predecessor, but no faster. He still uses the same plane (a twin-engined Beechcraft). In the 36½ months he has been in office, he has traveled, within the state, an estimated 40,000 miles. But he does most of his work in the faded, 95-year-old governor's mansion, as magniloquent and dated as an 1845 oration, at the edge of downtown Springfield. (Since the divorce, the handsome, eleven-room frame house on Stevenson's 70-acre farm at Libertyville has been rented. Its present...
...depression. A Republican, he was picked with State Department concurrence. Though by inclination he avoids entertaining, he has studiously cultivated British ministers, has doggedly applied himself to learning the embassy's ropes. As a good-will ambassador to the British public, Gifford is not as effective as his predecessor, Lewis Douglas, since he is a poor speaker and dislikes public appearances. State considers that Gifford is doing a sound, if unspectacular...
...confined his spirit contacts to his adored mother, whose constantly lighted portrait dominated King's Ottawa study and first awakened his interest in spiritualism. According to the spiritualists, King often attended two seances a week when he was in Britain, and communicated with other dead relatives, with his predecessor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with the late President Franklin Roosevelt, and even with Pat, his departed Irish terrier...