Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telegram, Pusey said he was "in full agreement with the opinion publicly stated by my predecessor and the Harvard Corporation that a member of the Communist Party is not fit to be on the Faculty because he has not the necessary independence of thought and judgment. ... We deplore the use of the Fifth Amendment for the reason set forth in the use of this Constitutional safeguard as a confession of guilt...
...France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign. Among Colin's subjects: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Pavlova, Katharine Hepburn, the French National Railroads, Cinzano, vacation resorts such as Cannes and Deauville...
Radically different in appearance from its predecessor, the gracefully modeled Sabre, the F-ioo is a rather homely, chunky job. Most of its workhorse look comes from its wide tailpipe and the wide air intake in its nose, which give it a chopped-off look. The wings are swept back at 45° (the Sabre's sweepback: 35°), and the engine is a Pratt & Whitney J-57-7 turbojet, which delivers 10,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner (the Sabre's thrust: about...
Dulles' record of accomplishment was not a result of skill as a diplomatic negotiator. As the unsurpassed technician of the conference table, Acheson's performance was far smoother, and Dulles gave his predecessor full marks for good intention and did not claim that his own desire for such laudable goals as peace was any greater than Acheson's. But there is more to getting a peace than wanting it, more to working toward decisions than suavity and adroitness at the conference table. A statesman who wants peace has to find specific policies which will lead his adversary...
During his turbulent presidency from 1846 to 1849, Edward Everott administered with on chief assumption: everything his predecessor had down was wrong. Everett favored the religious tone of Christo et Ecclesiae, a tone which veritas has not retained. He requested the aid of Samuel Adams Eliot, then treasurer of the Corporation, in restoring the "Spiritual and Godly Shield." Eliot, he soon found, was not the man to enlist in this cause. Unknown to the President, Eliot had been instrumental in getting Veritas recognized a few years before. The letters exchanged between the two men were lengthy, heated, but always...