Word: predecessors
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This system of "blown flaps" was first developed in 1956 by NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, but it roused little interest. At that time the airplane industry was more concerned with the high cruising speed of jetliners. Landing speed seemed secondary. Now everyone knows better...
Such small signs of defiance have kept Archbishop Beltrami and his predecessor extremely busy writing to their superiors in recent years, and hardly a month goes by that some Dutch theologian does not receive a monitum (warning) from the Holy Office. "We call it a box on the ear," says...
...That's All Gone." Most, but not quite all, of the credit for this remarkable comeback belongs to Lewis. He benefited from the courage of his predecessor, Frank Pace, who wrote off all General Dynamics' losses in the year they occurred instead of stretching them out. That meant the company was unburdened of past losses and that Lewis began with a $143 million tax credit. But the tax credit has long since been exhausted, and the new chief has shown a big order of courage and savvy of his own. Lewis cut back the Convair division, shifted some...
Even a non-cultist, however, will enjoy this movie, the second in what promises to be an endless series. Whereas Doctor No, its undistinguished predecessor, tried to cover up a poorly adapted science fiction plot by wallowing in Grade C sex, Russia presents a cogent story line (better, in fact, than the original), and at least three spectacular scenes, each capable of drawing spontaneous applause from any audience. The sex has also been moved up a grade--you won't want to miss the Turkish mode of female competition in the second reel...
...States." A paper of that name was indeed founded in Annapolis in 1727-37 years before the Courant's birth. But that Maryland Gazette died in its tenth year. It stayed dead until 1922, when the Maryland Republican, a paper independently established in Annapolis in 1809, appropriated its predecessor's name and dusted off the title...