Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard corporation, and Mr. George Wigglesworth '74, who was Judge Cabot's predecessor as president of the Governing Board of the Union. Brief speeches were also given by E. G. Lowry '25, Vice President this year, and J. J. Maher '26, who has just been elected to succeed him in that position next year. At the close of Lowry's next year. At the close of Lowry's talk, the results of the recent elections for the undergraduate committee for next year were announced. M. A. Cheek '26 was named Senior member, C. G. T. Lundell '27 was elected Junior...
...significance of this last move, coming as it does on top of the others, was that it would, if successful, give General Tanaka no less than 250 seats, or an absolute majority of the House of Representatives. It was therefore argued, as the move seemed likely to succeed, that the days of the Kato Cabinet are numbered, although doubtless it will remain in office until the winter session, which begins in December...
...resignation of Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin as pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was announced to take effect Jan. 12, 1926. He has had a notable career of 40 years in the ministry. It was predicted that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick would be called to succeed...
...America going to renounce its cardinal principle of freedom of thought and religious belief? The hard-won victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...
...interesting affairs have been brought under one news item: the opium evil and the recent tendency of Americans to offer large prizes. Former Controller Metz has gone on record as willing to give $100,000 to the man who invents synthetic opium. Strangely enough Mr. Metz thinks he can succeed where the ill-fated Opium Conference failed. Put cheap opium production into the hands of western scientists, argues the prize offer, and you eliminate the opium complex of the East...