Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduced tutorial system is understandable, but the greatest danger lies in the not too distant future when the University begins to contract. For at that time, unless an ever-growing student demand for the tutorial system persists, the already well-defined faculty apathy to the system will succeed in directing the permanent flow of departmental resources to other fields...
...national economy, it is the duty of the government to correct conditions which imperil the operation of the utility. And the conditions which create the current blind obedience to a demagogic and dangerous leader are deeply rooted in the facts of private ownership. If Mr. Truman cannot succeed in bluffing Mr. Lewis, then he will be sowing the wind. And the nation shall reap the whirlwind until such time as he screws up his courage to the sticking point of nationalization...
...President Truman should appoint a Republican Secretary of State and resign from office. . . . The Constitution provides for the Secretary of State to succeed the President when there is no Vice President. . . . It will place the responsibility of running the Government on one party and prevent a stalemate...
...first U.S. poet of the century to succeed in growing up, say the Gregorys, was Edwin Arlington Robinson. The Gregorys suggest parallels between Robinson's keen-witted accomplishment and that of Henry James: "Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters...
...only message I have for the moment is that the Fabian Society, having made Russia a great Fabian state, has now to make Henry Wallace succeed Franklin Roosevelt as President of the United States...