Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year the winner of the assistant managing editor competition becomes managing editor for half a year and automatically becomes president in the next half year. There are two of these competitions, which last a half term, and thus the managing editorship is filled each year by two men, who succeed each other and who each have a half term as president. In the business department there are two assistant business managers from the Junior class and one of these two becomes business manager for his entire Senior year. The photographic chairmanship is attained after a competition open to Junior members...
Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona was reported " in distress at losing his Senate leadership." It all came about because Governor Sweet of Colorado appointed Alva B. Adams to succeed the late Senator Nicholson from that state. Mr. Ashurst pathetically exclaimed: " I have not aspired to leadership of many sorts, but I have some very real regrets over losing my alphabetical leadership...
...Albert then called upon the President and promised to form a Cabinet, but it is unlikely that he will succeed. This means that the Reichstag will have to be dissolved and a real dictatorship set up, or a general election held...
...William E. Lewis, recently boxing and wrestling instructor with the Pennsylvania Mounted Police, has just been appointed coach of the wrestling team at the University and will take up his duties this week, according to an announcement made last night by the Harvard Athletic Association. He will succeed Mr. Frank Judson, coach of the University wrestling team for the past two years, who has left Cambridge to engage actively in wrestling in New York and Chicago during the winter...
...fundamental. The average under graduate knows that "success" in college is not attained by scholastic records and he believes that the same is true of life. There is no reason for him to wish to belong to the Phi Beta Kappa; ambition will inspire him with every desire to succeed in extra-curriculum work. And so the private school man being generally better equipped by personality monopolizes the chosen field...