Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth French Republic, established in 1945 and garnished with elaborate provisions intended to eliminate the pitfalls of the Third Republic (1875-1940), has slid full-circle back to its inefficient predecessor. As a result of consistent reversion to pre-war practices, the French government, with its inability to create positive policies, has been unable to contribute effectively to Western collaboration, and poses a danger of serious impotency in the future...
Green and James S. Harrison '57, his predecessor as HDC president, last night called for a new college dramatic organization to be formed next fall, under Administration auspices. Only such a group, they maintained, could efficiently conduct dramatics on a College-wide scale. They suggested that this new group should voluntarily assume any outstanding obligations of the HDC, to "preserve the name of Harvard theater...
...committee, is satisfied with Harvard's showing, but he doubts that the petition will have any real effect. A similar petition in 1952 helped stop a similar segregation drive, but De-Bayle pointed out that the current prime minister, Dirk Strijdom, has a firmer apartheid policy than his predecessor, and cares less for world opinion...
Gettysburg head coach John M. Yovicsin was appointed Harvard's twenty-second football coach yesterday, just nine weeks after his predecessor, Lloyd Jordan, had been dismissed...
...body will be taken to Milan for burial. Arturo Toscanini's epitaph might best be expressed in words spoken by the Austrian poet Grillparzer at Beethoven's grave: "Whoever comes after him will not be able to continue; he will have to begin again, for his predecessor ended only where art itself must...