Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are two things one should see on a trip West," he declared, "the Grand Canyon and Dr. Reinhardt." That was not the only compliment paid to Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt in Boston last week. She was also elected Moderator at the General Conference of U. S. Unitarians, to succeed famed Penologist Sanford Bates. At 63, tall, big-boned, deep-voiced, Dr. Reinhardt thus became the first woman moderator of a large U. S. church...
Yeats never fully grasped the thought-system that came to him "from beyond" his own mind; and no reader of A Vision will succeed where its author failed. The book's symbolic diagrams need Yeats's mind to work them: they will not work at all for the majority who will find Yeats's synthetic occultism repellent. The book remains, nevertheless, a remarkable integration of Yeats's feel of himself with his knowledge of mankind. By its rules of thumb he was enabled to sharpen the edges of his knifelike insights into men's personalities...
...Northern Norway, we still hold our strong positions, and with help that is promised us we shall succeed in reconquering the rest of our country. ... I and my Government are determined to carry on till the whole country has been freed...
...Hill did succeed in entertaining royalty: Queen Marie of Rumania, who left several crates of royal presents, crowned the huge edifice with the words: "There is a dream built into these walls." Sam Hill's dream house, standing out among the surrounding sage brush as incongruously as a top hat in a jungle, became a famed landmark. Some said Sam Hill expected to establish a monarchy in the neighboring mountains. Others hinted that he expected his castle to serve as officers' quarters in a future war with invading Japanese forces. To most Washingtonians it was simply "Sam Hill...
Baltimore, Maryland was decided on as the scene of the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs next year, and Eric A. McCouch '29 was chosen to succeed John J. Rowe '07 as president of the Associated Clubs...