Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poet Robert Lowell, 30, wartime conscientious objector, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinner, went a Government plum - a year's pleasant work (at $5,700) as adviser on poetry for the Library of Congress (where his predecessor was 1944 Pulitzer Poet Karl Shapiro...
Surveying the situation last week, the New Statesman & Nation aptly summed up: "The new Government, though much more 'intellectual' than its predecessor, is slightly to the right of it and psychologically considerably more remote from the labor movement. The country will probably be ruled more efficiently this winter than last; but there is a danger that the working class may come to think of this Government not as 'us' but as 'them...
...name of Richard Cresson Harlow, curator of Oology and Coach, Harvard Athletic Association, appeared in the University catalogue for the first time. Inaugurating what was dubbed, topically at the time, a "football new deal" for the University, Harlow's first team emphatically improved upon its immediate predecessor: it played respectable football at all times, it reduced margins of defeat to a gentlemanly size, and it turned the local gridiron tide away from the 1934 abyss back toward its traditional prominence. By 1936, Harvard men were no longer apologizing for their football team...
Shattering all remnants of its predecessor's reputation as far for the female literate, Signature will accept contributions from Harvard students and take male members onto its staff...
...much attention to stocks & bonds; in the depression it dropped nearly half its circulation. By wider coverage of all economic news and by trying to be more readable, President Kenneth C. Hogate brought it back. Hogate, who died in February, was succeeded by bright Bernard Kilgore, like his predecessor a Phi Beta Kappa from DePauw...