Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bruce Munro, in his first season as coach, has inherited a tough assignment. His predecessor, varsity coach Floyd Wilson, had five winning campaigns, and finished with a 16-game winning streak...
This was a gracious thing to do, considering that Wadsworth's predecessor had fought bitterly with the General Court, but there was less encouragement in the offer than might appear. Thus the sly line in the Corporation's petition of thanks, expressing Harvard's willingness to use the money as far as it could "unless the General Court should see meet to entertain a new thought, and build it by a committee of their own choosing..." In other words, the handsome dwellinghouse would cost more than one thousand pounds and the Corporation was trying to duck the extra bills...
Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government, said that although he believed some intensive and highly critical investigations were possible, on the whole this Congress would be more amenable to suggestions than its predecessor. He said Civil Service and power policy changes are the most likely...
...blood and wondered why the bout was halted in the middle of a round, felt cheated. But later photographs showed that the Frenchman's eye was in really bad shape. It was Olson's 18th straight victory. Although no Sugar Ray Robinson (his predecessor as middleweight champ), Olson is at least active, having defended his title three times this year. The week before the Langlois fight, boxing writers awarded Olson the Edward J. Neil Memorial Plaque as Fighter of the Year...
Mattei, a carabiniere's son and a wartime partisan, got into the oil business in 1945 when he was made Northern Commissioner of E.N.I.'s predecessor, the state-owned A.G.I.P. (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli), with the job of selling off its assets. Mattei defied the orders, kept his equipment and put prospectors to work in Italy's big Po Valley. Soon, Mattei was boss of all A.G.I.P. His geologists found a big methane gas deposit with an initial production (1.5 billion cu. ft.) greater than all the rest of Italy's fields. By 1953, Mattei...