Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall be a candidate for the Democratic nomination to succeed Senator Robinson. Wishing not to press myself on the party, I shall make no canvass for the nomination. If nominated, however, I will give all my strength eagerly in an effort to be elected...
Despatches at length announced the long expected appointment of Senator Victor Henry Bérenger to succeed Ambassador Nosky Georges Henri Emile Daeschner at Washington. Observers recalled that Senator Bérenger is Reporter General of the Budget to the Senate; that he came to the U. S. as second ranking member of M. Caillaux's ill fated debt mission (TIME, Oct. 5, Oct. 12) and that he is almost as widely known as a financial expert as Finance Minister Loucheur...
...radical magazines there is no end. The barometers of influence, modes, cults and cliques, they succeed each other in gay, interminable succession-backed by a group of bright young people who want to see their names in print, or by a garretful of earnest intellectuals whose desire it is to break a lance for any forlorn cause and die if they can-or at least starve-on the barricade of some well fought for hope. The magazines are published in amazing covers of topaz and mauve and cinnamon. Braver than autumn leaves, they flourish for a while, bailiffs occupy...
...monitorial slips come to bear even less than their customary relation to actual facts of attendance and more to the monitor's circle of acquaintance. Residences are juggled curiously; individuals who are commonly supposed to live in New York or perhaps Washington--and, in dead, spend their vacations there, succeed in establishing at University Hall temporary residences in outlandish places farther from Cambridge, and set out at an early date in order to arrive in time for the holiday...
...success of tutorial meetings in the final analysis, of course, will depend on how instructors succeed in making them attractive, and on how undergraduates receive them. If they achieve the success which is potentially theirs, they will eventually become an integral part of Harvard education. But in such an even, it is greatly to be hoped that in the development of a system they do not lose that informality which is at once their most pleasant and their meet valuable characteristic...