Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...served two terms in the Senate (twelve years) and five terms in the House (ten years) and wishes to rest and devote himself to legislative reform in his home state. He advised ex-Congressman C. F. Reavis, not so progressive, to go ahead with a campaign to succeed...
...been generally expected that Edward T. Clark would succeed to the position. Said those who were most polite: " And Edward T. Clark, who had been Mr. Coolidge's secretary ever since the Vermonter came to Washington as Vice President, who has toiled night and day in the awful confusion of these first days of the new incumbency, who served Senator Lodge of Massachusetts for seventeen years as secretary, who is considered one of the most competent secretaries in Washington?Mr. Clark is saying nothing. Loyalty is one of the earmarks of the good secretary...
...understood that our State Department was embarrassed by the premature announcement of its plan, and that treaty and notes will not be made public until the entire matter has been closed. Evidently Secretary Hughes hopes to succeed in the negotiations, since he still pursues them...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
...Speed of transportation will be vastly increased and will be limited only by the velocity of light (186,000 miles a second) . Interplanetary communication may not succeed, but it will certainly be attempted...