Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worse than that, this simple fact means that if the Japanese succeed in snatching the threatened Indies and threatened Free French New Caledonia, they will be able to cover almost half the Indian Ocean and more than half of Australia. Furthermore, they will be able to punch at three more potential Allied naval headquarters, Colombo, Sydney, Auckland...
Even if the Coalitionists do succeed in ousting Rex Tugwell from the Governor's chair, he has another to sit in. Before President Roosevelt appointed him Governor, his good friend Muñoz Marin made him Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico (TIME, Aug. 18). The University has never accepted his resignation. As Governor, he draws $10,000 a year; as Chancellor, he would...
...succeed Premier Saw, arrested by the British last fortnight for dickering with the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 26), the British Governor of Burma last week picked robust, midde-aged, cheroot-smoking Sir Paw Tun, formerly Premier Saw's Minister of Lands & Revenue...
When Lang was promoted from York to Canterbury in 1928, Temple succeeded him at York. Temple may well succeed him again. Outstanding as a church administrator and theologian as well as a reformer, Dr. Temple a year ago called the famed Malvern Conference to seize for the Church leadership in "ordering the new society." In December he led an official interdenominational commission (TIME, Jan. 5) in a far-to-the-left program for Social Justice & Economic Reconstruction which he called "a conscious and deliberate attempt to cancel the divorce between theology and economics." But York may decline the Primacy...
Martin will succeed Richard W. Snibbe, last year's Varsity coach, who left his course at the Graduate School of Design, and will take over his duties on February 17, when official lacrosse practice begins for the season...