Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present (Luther) Government is not directly implicated; but, as the scandal has become a first-rate political fight between the Socialists and the anti-Socialists, as the Government is logically bound to explain its predecessor's actions and as Foreign Minister Stresemann was Chancellor at the time, the present Government is certainly interested...
...losing the one-lap relay to the Engineers, who ran the short distance in one minute five and two-fifths seconds. Followed the one-lap entry for University entries. But this race came to an untimely end when the fourth Tech runner became so absorbed in cheering his predecessor that he forgot to take the baton from him and carry on. The race was run over, and won by Harvard with a quarter lap lead in 1.03 3-5. A. H. O'Nell '28 starred for the Crimson first-year men in this event...
...decades Memorial was thronged. The more fortunate organized themselves in "club tables," where each had his own sea. Others perforce ate at "hotel tables," where the appetite of newcomers--two or three relays of them--was tempered by seeing remains of a predecessor's voracity. That was before the war. Latterly, we are told, the diners have dwindled from well above a thousand to three hundred. It takes five hundred to pay expenses. The loss last year was some...
Unlike the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, who was a Rhinelander, this indus- trial potentate hails from Frankfort, home of the Rothschilds. Unlike the dead "King of Coke," the "King of the Borse" is a Jew; his great predecessor in wealth was a Lutheran. Unlike the bluff, hard, scowling Stinnes, the Jew is suave, handsome, crafty. Unlike the once omnipotent Ruhr industrialist, who inherited his father's fortune, the newcomer began with the modest sum of 15,000 marks and made his enormous fortune unaided. But the latter aims to be like Stinnes; he is copying the methods of Stinnes...
...East may understand the West. The U. S. Secre- tary of State pondered, for it rested with him to make the stay of this new Ambassador in a Western country a success in point of amity-a greater success than the mission of the oriental Ambassador's predecessor, who had blundered badly by using threatening language to the Senate of the U. S. Yes, really, better relations, with Japan must be established through this new Ambassador...