Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he was asked whether he thought Mussolini's successor would be able to maintain the power his predecessor had amassed, Professor Langer said it was very doubtful. "But it is usually the outside power which forces the issue, and not the internal. Consider France thus as the external force in the case of Alsace-Lorraine...
...Navy" plan before the country in a peaceful light than the man who had to explain it to Congress, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Chief of Operations. To be on the safe side, he stuck as close as possible, almost word for word, to the statement of his predecessor, Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, whose estimates of the year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when the Committee quizzed him, it was with misleading reluctance that...
...Cohens and Kellys in Paris. If there is anything inherently comic about Irish individuals and Hebrew individuals when placed in boisterous juxtaposition, this film, like its predecessor, The Cohens and Kellys, is no doubt hilarious. The previous picture not only was, in the opinion of many, a riot; it also caused violent scenes to take place in some of the theatres where it was shown. People threw tomatoes at the screen and at each other. The sequel is less likely to precipitate...
...taking men who perhaps have never run before and, overcoming their initial discouragements, bring before them the motto of the Harvard track team--Progress." Following Mr. Bingham, C. W. Martin, his successor as head track coach, made a speech in which he stated his intentions of carrying out his predecessor's policy and of concentrating on team work rather than on individual brilliance...
...worth and greater promise; due to it she became recognized as a novelist definitely arrived. Her second story, "My Heart And My Flesh," will therefore only enhance an already established reputation. It is an extremely creditable enhancement, however, and will suffer, and then slightly, only when compared with its predecessor. It fulfils the promise of "The Time Of Man" much more successfully than Miss Kennedy's "Red Sky At Morning" fulfils the splendor of "The Constant Nymph...