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Word: predecessors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal aid program must encounter the problem of segregated schools, as those states not yet abiding by the Supreme Court decision are in the greatest need of educational improvement. The Powell amendment is an unnecessarily antagonistic approach. It should arouse the same southern opposition which killed the bill's predecessor. While Congress cannot afford to assent tacitly to continued segregation, it should not attempt to duplicate the role of the Justice Department in bringing about integration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Aid | 3/28/1957 | See Source »

...close a septal defect. Within Charles Bailey's lifetime, surgery has changed from a relatively blunt and blind art, executed singlehanded. into a skill supported by a team of experts and a world of machines delicate enough to approach the center of life itself. Yet unlike his predecessor. Stephen Paget. Bailey refuses to believe there are no more conquests ahead. As he sees it, nothing is impossible in surgery. Bailey looks forward to the day when an entire heart may be taken from a man killed in an accident and grafted into another whose heart is diseased. Fantastic? "Merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery's New Frontier | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

Fourth Day shows the molten sun and cooling moon pulling apart in the primary blue sky, while the first living things begin their incandescent dance of life. As for the dark cloud, Kovarsky suggests that it represents Lilith, the legendary predecessor of Eve, who has now become an evil spirit, roaming the desolate spaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BIRTH OF THE WORLD | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...mail plan, utilized to some extent by Yovicsin's predecessor, Lloyd Jordan, will include not only technical material but definite plans for keeping players in condition before practice begins in the fall...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Yovicsin Sets Sights on Winning Football Within 'Ivy Philosophy' | 3/22/1957 | See Source »

...Crimson five finished with a 12-9 won-lost record, quite an improvement over the 8-16 performance of its immediate predecessor. With a few less mistakes, four more games could have been won, including the two Yale losses, Coach Floyd Wilson commented. "No longer are we the league's pushovers," he added...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Basketball Team Regains Prominence With First Winning Season in Decade | 3/19/1957 | See Source »

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