Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decline all over the world in the demand for Italian opera seems doubtful when you consider the prodigious popularity of certain contemporary Italian composers, such as Puccini. Perhaps the point of the matter lies in the fact that no young Italian operatic composer has arisen who seems likely to succeed Puccini in popular vogue, and it may be that the reason for this is to be sought in the turning of newer composers of Italy from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand?in America at least?for Italian orchestral...
...bludgeon. A remonstrance has been drawn from President Hopkins by the "vituperation" in "La Critique", another anonimity. This paper claims that "the greatest obstacle to the obtainment of an education at Dartmouth is the faculty. Most of its members are teaching because it would be impossible for them to succeed at any other trade". It is to be regretted that these particular Juniuses have found it necessary to become personal, to strike at particular sage heads about the faculty table...
...Bankers Trust Company of New York elected Seward Prosser to be its first chairman of the Board; A. A. Tilney will succeed him as president...
Radcliffe has its first full-time president in the person of Dean Ada Louise Comstock of Smith, who has been elected to succeed Dean Le Baron R. Briggs of Harvard. Miss Comstock was the first dean of women at Minnesota and the first dean of Smith. She is a graduate of Smith and Columbia and a native of Minnesota. Since 1921 she has been president of the American Association of University Women...
...near the town of Buer, and the French retaliated by killing eight and wounding thirteen. This alters the complexion of affairs. Germany has nothing to gain by murder. Her burden may be heavy and the way difficult, but sanguinary tactics are suicidal. France, on the other hand, will succeed in completely alienating foreign sympathy if she allows the present situation to develop. Moreover, " killings" give the Germans an opportunity of doing homage to their martyred countrymen...