Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Bricker qualifies under Rule 5: as Governor he has been a success. By contrast with his predecessor, Tree Surgeon Martin Davey, he has been spectacularly able. Natty, spatty Martin Davey left Ohio nearly bankrupt, with a $40,000,000 deficit and payrolls loaded with spoilsmen...
...seems that Company E is bound and determined to follow the footsteps of its predecessor companies in getting themselves supplied with dates for the Regimental Dance on the twenty-sixth at the Copley Plaza, because the hue and cry of the first few days, "Say, where can I get myself a date?" has been changed to, "I've gotta date and she has a friend that wants to go ..." What! You haven't got yours? Well, see any E man for particulars...
...validated or disproved ... to improve, if he can, everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles...
President Kortlander has about 25 employes. One is J. Lawrence Cook, a dignified, 43-year-old Negro inherited from the company's once-famed predecessor, the Q.R.S.* Music Company. J. Lawrence Cook is a nearly indispensable man. Thereby hangs a tale and a technique...
Today's issue marks the 70th birthday of the Harvard Crimson, whose aged predecessor, the Magneta, made it's first appearance on the morning of January 24, 1873, a new venture in the field of collegiate Journalism...