Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honest, we didn't mean it, Mr. Ernst-we Lampoon fellows don't mean anything we say," was how reviewer Whitman Hobbs '41 explained his bestowal of "least likely to succeed" honors on Leila...
...conservative man, Murray plants his feet firmly, but only after he is sure which way he wants to face. When Murray was elected C. I. O. president last November, to succeed John L. Lewis, some observers expected him to lop off the heads of C. I. O. Communists. No heads have been lopped yet. One man accused of Communistic leanings is C. I. O. Counsel Lee Pressman. Another is Wyndham Mortimer, organizer for the automobile workers. Murray accepts their denials of Communism. He must have definite proof of an aide's deviation from C. I. O. principles before...
...itself. Idle at German bases were two new 35,000-ton battleships, two 26,000-ton battle cruisers, perhaps two pocket battleships, at least three heavy cruisers and five light cruisers in addition to destroyers and submarines. A surprise attack on Eire using this force as escort might easily succeed if British ships, scattered widely on many duties, were not available to engage it. Once in Irish ports, the Nazis would be difficult to dislodge...
When Blaik resigned three weeks ago to accept the Army job, it was his wish that McLaughry should succeed him. Announcement of McLaughry's appointment arrived after a conference among President Hopkins of Dartmouth, Director of Athletics William McCarter, and Carl Woods, President of the Alumni Athletics Council...
...years old tradition of graduate coaches went by the boards last Saturday as Yale named Iowan Emerson W. "Spike" Nelson head football coach to succeed Raymond "Ducky" Pond and gave Nelson a free hand in forming a new grid staff...