Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back and gazed at the heavens, I wonder whether he was reading Edgar Rice Burroughs by lantern-light or moonshine? The idea of a universe contained within the earth's crust was conceived by Mr. Burroughs some 25 years ago in his novel Pellucidar [and its predecessor, At the Earth's Core...
...Jews were slaughtered. A new Polish bourgeoisie took over their little shops and businesses. Now, when an occasional Jew does come back from concentration camp or other exile and reclaims his place, his successor hates him. And every other member of the new Polish bourgeoisie fears that his predecessor might return from the grave...
...self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge has taught Shakespeare and Latin there for 30 years, has been vice-rector for 18. He and his predecessor went to school (Cambridge Latin and Harvard) together...
Even before the end of the football season, newly-appointed basketball coach Bill Barelay was busy experimenting with the team whose predecessor had represented New England in the NCAA hoop tourney. Barelay introduced a modified western style of ball, stressed teamplay, and produced a quintet that managed to win more games than it lost...
Lawyer Quigg, the first native son in Denver's line of 32 mayors, was the antithesis of his predecessor. The son of a wealthy Denver Republican, he played football at Phillips Academy at Andover, learned law at Yale, served an exploratory year as a legal secretary with SEC. During the war he flew a Washington desk as a commander in the Naval Air Transport Service, came back to Denver with an itch to give the city a liberal, non-partisan mayoralty administration...