Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a new face under a baseball cap, too: one Steve Sebo, a modest man who readily admits adopting the Michigan-Harvard system from his predecessor, Davey Nelson...
...TIME tripped on an erroneous picture-agency caption, wrongly ran the photograph of Dr. Feodor Krotkov, chief of the visiting Soviet delegation to the U.N. Health Assembly in 1946 and a predecessor of Dr. Vinogradov...
...would be held accountable for the recent failures of Soviet policy in Europe. It was more likely that the U.S.S.R. was merely reverting to its normal practice of having mouthpieces rather than policymakers handle Soviet dealings with the outside world. Litvinoff was a mouthpiece, and so was his predecessor Chicherin. Vishinsky, for all his forensic talents, belongs in that category...
Little Women (MGM) is Hollywood's second try at exploiting Louisa May Alcott's genteel, durable New England tearjerker. A shade less ambitious than its 1933 predecessor (which starred Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), it still jerks tears with easy efficiency...
...tidy Dutch were checking over the books of Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra. If everything was in order, Conductor Eduard van Beinum's musicians would get their annual subsidy as usual. But this time everything was distinctly not in order: Van Beinum's predecessor, the great Dutch conductor Willem Mengelberg, was still down on the books for 10,000 guilders ($3,760) a year, even though he had been sent into musical exile in 1945 for collaborating with the Nazis...