Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only after industry has crystallized into unalterable moulds. For once the Federal government may apply its regulative power to a new industry. it may in a manner direct the inevitable expansion of the radio industry into those channels best calculated to serve public interests if the patent-suits do succeed in forcing the government to seize time by the forelock their inauguration is not to be condemned...
...Newspapers published the picture* of Right Reverend William Temple, Bishop of Manchester, 43, son of the illustrious late Archbishop of Canterbury. Rumor picked him to succeed Archbishop Randall Davidson, 76, who, it was said, would resign on account of age. True, Bishop Temple has friends in the Labor Government; but Archbishop Davidson is unlikely to give a Labor Government the chance to appoint his successor. Furthermore, a slight acquaintance with Canterburian tradition would reveal that its Archbishops yield only to death...
...through his pocket-book: It would seem wise to try the experiment of raising the rates high enough to furnish excellent food--food that is better than that of the average Cambridge restaurant--at the same time liberalizing the conditions of signing up for board. All this will never succeed in bringing in hungry swarms to Memorial Hall, but there is no doubt that really good food would enlarge the patronage to an astonishing degree...
...effective as the cruel Captain Butler, who directs the Iroquois raids, and ravages the American outposts. About these three a rapidly shifting melodrama of death, pasion, and mad action revolves with bewildering intensity. Indian raids, banquets, panoramic rides of rescue, fort-storming, and cavalry charges of fighting patriots succeed each other. Deep touches of pathos, and fleeting moments of humor--some ridiculous, some gruesome--are mixed through. The scenes are all emotional to the extreme. When the play is over there is hardly a normal heart in the theatre. The effect is much the same as that of a football...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard Debating Union met to elect a new chairman to take the place of Chariton MacVeagh '24 who was forced to resign because of the pressure of his work. Philip Walker '25, of Brookline, President of the Debating Council, was chosen to succeed...