Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexander Henderson, Baron Faringdon (Chairman, Great Central Railway); Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used...
...prairie schooner" was usually referred to as the "Conestoga" wagon. It took its name from the vehicle-the predecessor of the modern freight car-which carried freight in the 1790's from Philadelphia to Lancaster and the Conestoga country over the Old Lancaster Pike. When this road, the pioneer turnpike of the continent, was extended westward over the Alleghenies into Steubenville and the Ohio Lands, the Conestoga Wagon went with it and so became a symbol of the westward march of the pioneer...
...Judah, Willard, Wolf, and Reichmann) has contributed another third. Viscount Shibusawa having made up the rest, the monument partakes of a binational character soothing to the feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with culture and position more than politics, characteristics to which Japanese have been quick to react with favor...
Political Paradox. Mgr. Seipel (Christian Socialist) succeeds as Chancellor, Dr. Rudolf Ramek, also a Christian Socialist. Not only is the new Chancellor of the same party as his predecessor, but they are both agreed on the fundamental policy of resistance to the incessant demands of Austria's organized state employes for higher...
After the first 15-minute quarter, Team B of the Sophomores went in, and displayed the same effectiveness as its predecessor. Within five minutes of going on the field P. H. Weymouth '29, after a series of brilliant slants off tackle, carried the ball over Boston's goal-line, No try for point was made, and there was no further score while Team B was on the field...