Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dragoon their scientists as sternly as in this one, somebody asked gruff Sir Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford) if he would please stop puttering with the atom and work full time on antisubmarine devices. Rutherford answered, in effect: Gentlemen, I am trying to split the atom. If I succeed, it will be more important than...
...break with tradition and have a Canadian named for the job. They thought that Canada's sovereignty would thus be more clearly demonstrated. Some of the British-born appointees, they thought, had been oppressively overstuffed. Others, particularly the more Anglophile Canadians, felt that another of royal blood should succeed Athlone, who is King George VI's uncle. Such a selection would not weaken the link with the British Crown...
...first major appointment, Harry Truman had called in an old friend and World War I buddy, St. Louis Banker John Wesley Snyder, to succeed Fred Vinson as Federal Loan Administrator. This week, as Vinson moved on to the Treasury Department, John Snyder moved into another Vinson seat: he became Director of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion...
...onetime driver of the crack Sydney-Melbourne express became Prime Minister of Australia last week. By a 3-to-1 vote, Joseph Benedict ("Chif") Chifley was chosen by the Parliamentary Labor Party to succeed the late John Curtin...
Roland Sink, short, light, and only 19, has competed in three races this year and won all of them. His 4:17 mile in the New England A.A.U. last week made Boston sports columnists speculate that he may succeed to the crown which Dodds abdicated when he announced his retirement earlier this year. Sink is enrolled in the Naval Midshipmen's Supply School...