Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formally loyal to CCA principles, joined the old guard politicians on the City Council to terminate Atkinson's decade of excellent government. Atkinson was replaced by John J. Curry, who ... was at that time considered to be more receptive to the views of Crane and DeGuglielmo than was his ...predecessor. It should be emphasized that the dismissal of Atkinson brought forth protests from men like W. Donnison Swan and the founder of the CCA, George L. McLaughlin...
Halsey, 73, snorted delightedly as he hammed up his disguised role of a distant predecessor, iron-men-and-wooden-ship Commodore John Paul Jones. After the show, Iron-Man Halsey took off his fancy duds, let down his hair to make a wooden confession: "I'll bet there was nobody in the war more scared, more often, and for as long...
...Even when we use the electronic calculator we are indebted to the long-forgotten Eastern merchant who first adapted number signs to the layout of the abacus. His predecessor, the temple scribe who gave each pebble a number value ten times as great when moved one groove to the left, first gave ordinary men a clear idea of the use of a fixed base in mathematics. The electronic calculator of today still makes use of a fixed base, though it commonly employs a base of two instead of ten . . . All our modern aids to calculation are the rewards of work...
Main Phase to Come. Violence there was, however, although nothing like the havoc-wreaking anti-Greek violence in Turkey last month (see NEWS IN PICTURES). On the day that Sir John's predecessor, Sir Robert Armitage, boarded ship for a new post (governor of Nyasaland), demonstrations broke out in six cities...
Though the new Continental has been redesigned from rubber to roof, it is deliberately reminiscent of its famed predecessor. The body is long (18 ft. 2 in.) and low (56 in.). The spare-tire mount, a hallmark of the old Continental, is now molded into the trunk lid. Under its 6-ft. hood is a souped-up Lincoln engine with an estimated 300 h.p. (because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning...