Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trustees of the Seminary announced a few days later that Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church for 21 years, and teacher at the Seminary for 22 years-yet still on the early side of 50-was chosen to succeed Dr. McGiffert. He is a liberal in the church, with a background of scholarship at Yale, at the Seminary of which he now becomes President, at New-College, Edinburgh, and the University of Marburg...
Officers. To succeed S. E. Thomason (Chicago Tribune) as their president, the publishers elected John Stewart Bryan (Richmond News-Leader). Edward H. Butler (Buffalo Evening News), George M. Rogers (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and Howard Davis (New York Herald Tribune) were other new officers?vice president, secretary and treasurer, respectively...
...succeed the late Hugh Chisholm (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, MILESTONES) as editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, that compendium's directors last week-largely at the instance of Americans in their number-appointed James Louis Garvin, the man designated by the late Lord Northcliffe as "greatest living journalist." Since 1908, Journalist Garvin had edited the London Observer (Sunday), being retained by the present owner (Viscount Astor) after the death of Lord Northcliffe, the founder...
...late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of all the Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew-Vistula-San-Carpathians front (1915) to lines so well chosen that they held for two years longer. During that time many an Allied commander thanked God that...
Friends made in the Young Men's Bible Class at his uncle's church abash his rusticity, put him in touch with the spirit of the time, to Succeed. They introduce him to drink, which he adopts moderately, and to Evelyn, an anemic young lost lady of the bars, whom he idealizes and takes unto himself with comparative propriety. Gaslit love* in a hall bedroom lasts until she gets a chance to go on the road with one of the immoral, new-fangled "leg-shows." Sam celebrates her departure with an attack of pneumonia that cancels his disgrace at home...