Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phantom cargo of 24 decayed sailors' bodies, unredeemed since last September, the S-51 freighted them to decent Christian burial in respectable cemeteries. Fortnight ago the Navy failed in a big attempt to raise the sunken casket because of heavy seas arising (TIME, July 5), swore it would succeed next time...
...striking British coal miners back to work by making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage they ask, providing they will work an extra hour. Last week A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation, became so fearful lest this strategy succeed that he threatened to order on strike even the "safety pump men" who prevent by their work irreparable damage to the coal mines which would result from unchecked flooding...
...Caillaux, Bertaux and Deleassé, though they dominated the Monis Cabinet, were deadlocked among themselves as to which should succeed that weakling as Premier. An airplane tumbled out of the sky, injuring Monis, decapitating Bertaux. Caillaux became Premier...
...coal subsidy was still open. It might be better, however, to expend that sum for the relief of miners thrown out of work by readjustments in the industry. If this program were not at once put into operation and mining resumed, Britain's foreign coal competitors would succeed disastrously in capturing and holding British markets...
However, it elected Baptist Dr. C. A. Barbour, President of the Rochester Theological Seminary, a trustee to succeed the late A. C. Bedford (Standard...