Word: predecessors
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Mitchell's predecessor, Alan E. Heimert '49, who retired last year after 23 years as master, was seen as the steward who retained the traditions of Old Harvard at Eliot House. Heimert's tenure was characterized by weekly cocktail hours and particularly indulgent celebrations at the Eliot Fete. When he retired along with Senior Tutor Donald Bacon, also a longtime fixture of Eliot life, many thought an era had ended...
...Cambridge will soon be able to gaze at the home sites of prominent figures such as W.E.B. DuBois. His residence during his years at Harvard, 20 Flagg St., still stands as a reminder of the first Black to earn a doctorate and the founder of the Niagara Movement, the predecessor to the NAACP...
...motto of the FBI is "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." How well did William Sessions' all-powerful predecessor, J. Edgar Hoover, uphold these words? Not very, according to a just published biography of the late FBI chief. Anthony Summers' Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover is sure to disturb the old crime fighter's final rest...
...refer to Sessions as "Director Concessions," "the empty suit" and "Chauncey Gardiner," after the simpleminded hero of the Jerzy Kosinski novel Being There. "The vast majority of agents are embarrassed by him," says Francis Mullen Jr., who served as the FBI's No. 2 official under William Webster, Sessions' predecessor...
Unfortunately, that's not the case. Clinton, though to all appearances well-trained in forensics, poses even greater dangers to the language than did his predecessor. The Anglophone world has escaped the danger of syntactic bankruptcy only to face the more insidious threat of semantic bankruptcy...