Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tsuneo Matsudaira presented the President with a pleasing speech and letters of credence as Ambassador from Japan. In reply, the President referred to "your predecessor, Mr. Masanao Hanihara, who so congenially and helpfully represented your Government among us"?a remark perilously near a lie or an opinion by Stephen Leacock...
...which George Higgins Moses undertook was nowise that which his predecessor had had. Since there had been no Vice President for 18 months, Mr. Cummins presided during that time and drew the Vice President's salary perquisites (notably an automobile and an office in the Capitol). Mr. Moses will preside only when Mr. Dawes is absent from the Chamber and draw only his normal salary...
...think we can afford to permit ourselves a few feathers. Why shouldn't the Superintendent of Caretakers wear that title? I've no doubt that his predecessor, the Head Janitor he was called, spent a good deal of time trying to improve his authority weakened as it was by such a name. After all, the 'goody' is, nominally, a caretaker...
...unintelligent criticism of President Lowell. And I feel sure that it is not entirely representative of undergraduate feeling. He has worked well and constructively for the college since his appointment, and so far as I can determine, has been as good a man to succeed his wonderful predecessor as could have been found anywhere. Furthermore, his policy with regard to the 47 Workshop seems to me to have been the only logical one to follow, for anyone who had the best interest of the University at heart...
...interests of convenience by organizing its material in a more unified manner. It has eliminated the former method of merely binding together the Catalogue of Names and the Catalogue of Departments. The 1924-25 edition numbers some thirty-seven pages more than the combined sections of its predecessor. The new Catalogue has furthermore added a comprehensive index of its entire contents...