Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back home, popular young Minister Sherrill went from strength to strength among the properest Bostonians. His first parish, the Church of Our Saviour, was in the tony suburb of Brookline. Sherrill's predecessor had been an old man; Sherrill's live-wire preaching brought a dramatic increase in the Sunday turnout. There he met pretty Barbara Harris, daughter of a prosperous Brookline businessman. By taking her to baseball games in the afternoons, Sherrill managed to court her without giving the parish gossips a chance. They were married in 1921, now have a son in the ministry...
Unlike his predecessor, Eugene Griffin, the Tribune's reticent Ottawa correspondent, who three years in a row came to Harvard to look for "red tinges on the Ivy," Fulton talked amiably about his task. He said that State Representative E. J. Donlan, of West Roxbury, had given him a list of the leftist affiliations of Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, that "was an arm long...
...Budapest Quartet plays with poise and assurance. Joseph Roisman, the first violinist, asserts vigorous leadership with amazing economy of motion. Jac Gorodetzky, the new second violinist, is a distinct improvement over his predecessor who always seemed to play his important motives too softly. The Quartet is one of the finest groups in the nation, and their appearance here was one of the season's highlights...
...every five years by convocation, i.e., popular vote. It is the only chair of its kind at Oxford or Cambridge. As the 33rd incumbent, C. Day Lewis will be one of the few practicing poets ever to occupy it. In the past, historians and theologians predominated. His most distinguished predecessor, Matthew Arnold, held the post two terms...
Charles Munch, conductor of the Boston Symphony, broke with a tradition long upheld by his predecessor, Serge Koussevitsky, when he asked only a third of the chorus to sing at the April 24 concert...