Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Dalton, Great Britain's scholarly, well-groomed Chancellor of the Exchequer, had been chosen chairman of the joint boards of governors, to succeed U.S. Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder. London had been chosen for next year's meeting place...
Four selections, considered by the nebulous editorial board to be those most likely to succeed, will be submitted to the mass of feminine undergraduate judges tomorrow. Ballots, reported to be printed on flowery pink paper, are being stuffed head-on into Annex mailboxes even...
Whether Brooklyn wins or loses this week's playoffs, Dodger fans have a really rosy future to contemplate during the long winter months. The twelve-club farm chain collected by President Branch Rickey is busting with young talent. Most likely to succeed: Negro Jackie Robinson...
When he heard Christopher Lynch sing in Dublin, John McCormack said: "He is the one most likely to succeed me. . . ." For a year before his death last September, Tenor McCormack taught strapping, blue-eyed Tenor Lynch what he knew about singing...
...when he was 40, the Harvard Corporation elected him to succeed retiring President A. Lawrence Lowell (see BOOKS). Nobody was more surprised than James Bryant Conant himself. He still wonders at times "why the Corporation elected me, and why I took the job when they...