Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of the book's publication; "Mr. Brogan has made a purely political study covering nearly the same ground as Bryce's American Commonwealth, and in this challenging comparison with that classic work, the praises he carns in his task is that his volume is not unworthy of its predecessor..." They Yale Review of winter, 1933, believed that "no writer on our party system has given a more brillintly written or more plausible account of it than Mr. Brogan...
...electronic calculating machine using 66 transistors, capable of 1,000,000 counting actions a second. Standard unit in many mechanical brains, this counter uses 1/30 the power, is 1/8 the weight and 1/10 the size of its vacuum-tube predecessor...
...days after the Korean war broke out, a Columbia executive sighed for a Korean film. "How would you like A Yank in Korea?" asked Sam. "Great!" replied the executive. Six weeks and two days later, A Yank in Korea (a remake of A Yank in the R.A.F. and predecessor of A Yank in Indo-China) was ready for distribution...
...instance, Alfred E. Stearns, Fuess's predecessor at Andover, was anything but a "dryasdust pedant... At times he displayed a fiery temper, and on at least two occasions peremptorily 'fired' an instructor in anger, only to repent and apologize before sunset. Sometimes he made enemies by the stout fashion in which he spoke out, but the boys liked his ... strong convictions ... He continually stressed . . . moral issues; and like Thomas Arnold he was more interested in forming character than in producing scholars...
...Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 and its predecessor, the Internal Security Act of 1950, both sponsored by Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran...