Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, the air is just as bad in Sever 2 and Harvard 6 as it was fifty years ago, probably worse in the accumulation of years, and the Widener Library is used as much as its predecessor for "conversation or animated discussion." The Public-Spirited Senior, whose generous purchase of a dozen pairs of English sparrows for the Yard was noted half a century ago, has had ample time to watch the progress of his little colony until it is no uncommon sight to see two of these unusual birds at the same time in Sever Quadrangle alone...
...statement in its preamble, but outsiders have pronounced it a poorly disguised attempt to rob the Indians of what little land they have left. And this, in spite of the possession by each chieftain of the tribe of a silver-headed cane--a gift received by his predecessor from Abraham Lincoln as a guarantee of ownership, for ever and ever...
...where shortsightedness, or perhaps too much farsightedness, made it a failure before it had begun. Now a definite plan seems again to be shaping, under encouraging auspices: but as yet no word has been spoken that makes Augustus Thomas's latest project any more certain of success than its predecessor. The public waits eagerly for confirmation of rumors, and for some tangible action as a pledge of success...
...addition to the foregoing there is a complete file of Poor's Manuals including the first volume issued in 1868. There is also a complete file, one of the few in existence, of Hunt's Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review, the predecessor of the present Commercial and Financial Chronicle, dating back to 1839 and running to 1865 and conducted by Mr. Freeman Hunt...
Covington, the speedy broken field runner, will pilot the Southerners and may approximate the brand of play shown by his predecessor McMillin. Hudgins is another of the backfield starters from whom much is expected in the way of sensational end runs...