Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club is now in its second year of post-war activity. Before the war, the predecessor of the present organization. The Harvard Airplane Club, included in its active membership a number of men now prominent in aeronautical circles, and these men are welded into a semi-permanent alumni committee which will direct the policies of the present organization...
...well expect to get good government. Similarly Tampa, Fla., looked forward last week to having a model newspaper. The local Tribune was sold by the syndicate of Tampa businessmen that had owned it since 1925, to President John Stewart Bryan of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and his predecessor in that office, S. Emory Thomason. Old friends, the new partners paid a booming price for their property-$900,000-and assumed all liabilities. They said they believed in Tampa, believed northern capital was by no means through flowing south. Publisher Bryan did not announce that he would leave...
...greatest of the trinity of tragedians that flourished in Periclean Athens: The work of Sophocles finds the mean between the rather conservative religions views of Aeschylus and the radical thought of Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet "who saw life steadily and saw it whole...
John Edwards Lockwood 2L. of New York City was elected vice-president and William Winterston Owens 2L. of Baltimore, Maryland, secretary Lockwood succeeds S. H. Babcock 3L., while J. T. Cahill 3L was Owens' predecessor...
Meanwhile the new Governor of South Carolina* has done nothing more than his predecessor to punish the lynchers of the Lowman Negroes and Negress (TIME...