Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whoever purchases the "good-will and tangible assets" of the "Widow's" school, therefore, will find the disadvantage--or possibly, advantage--of having a high standard already set by his predecessor. As long as examinations play so important a part in academic life, tutoring schools will be patronized. But it may be long before anyone appears, competent to succeed to the empty throne of the "Widow...
There are all these disadvantages money, rot, the "many headed beast", dirty politics et al. Yet in the end the career is one that still remains some what individualistic. Mr. Waterson on resigning from the "Courier Journal" became "Editor Emeritus" because due to his predecessor's and his own efforts and personalities the paper had become as much an institution as any university...
...Beals' unusual ability that kept him in the first string when apparently ineffective at his post by the right boards. This theory loses force, however, when it is remembered that Hodder, the new right wing, is a southpaw, who could hardly be expected to perform any better than his predecessor, since he will have to shoot from his back-hand...
...epitaph of the late Year 1923 must be written that it saw less than half as many lynchings in the U. S. as its predecessor, 1922. There were 61 lynchings in 1922; only 26 last year...
...American monopoly for both war and peace purposes is the object of bills to be introduced at the present session of Congress. Dr. S. C. Lind, newly appointed chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, sponsors the movement. Dr. Lind and his predecessor, Dr. Richard B. Moore, two of the country's leading authorities on rare gases and earths, speaking last week before the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at Washington, out lined the probable future developments of helium and the Government's program for it. The gas is going to waste...