Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pliny Jewell of Coffin and Burr Inc., Boston, was chosen association president to succeed Ray Morris of Brown Brothers & Co., Manhattan...
...Thus Chairman Pierson of the new combine worked for the Hanover National for 13 years before joining the N. Y. National Exchange (later the Irving Trust) as a clerk. Mr. Clarke was 12 years (1889-1901) in becoming assistant cashier of the American Exchange National though he was to succeed his father, Dumont Clarke, as president in 1910. President-elect Ward went straight from Yale to a bottom-level job with the Irving Trust, his rise to the presidency in 18 years (1901-19) being accounted exceptionally rapid...
...members of the team must have felt the same way I did when I was going to swim the channel. No one thought. I had a chance of getting across. The newspapers were all sympathetic, but skeptical just the same. I made me awfully determined to succeed...
...Hallowell '01, President of the Associated Harvard Clubs has announced the appointment of Evan Hollister '97, of Buffalo, New York, to succeed the late C. C. Stillman '98 as vice-president of the Eastern Division of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...French cook will come out of the kitchen; gone will be the cry of "black and tan" or the hoarse shout of "sea-goings". In their stead, American language, as spoken in our best colleges, will be heard in restaurants. Culture will take the place of anarchy; America will succeed in the kitchen just as it has succeeded elsewhere; foreign competition will stand no show beside the learned and cultured American college cook. The higher education will have gained another victory...