Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese traffic is a cacophonous confusion. Rickshas, passenger wheelbarrows, pedestrians with bound feet, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, sedan chairs, porters shouldering loads on swaying bamboo poles, buffalo and pony carts, busses, trucks, automobiles, jeeps move, when they succeed in moving at all, to the left in China's streets. Last week the Chinese press undertook to get all this confusion moving to the right...
...Manhattan's drama critics, Brooks Atkinson, who learned about foreign reporting in censorship-cramped Chungking. (When Broadway calls Atkinson again, Drew Middleton, not so long ago an obscure A.P.man and now the Times's "find" of the war, was likely to move in from Germany to succeed...
What purpose there was in this confusion, except to give Chancellor Hutchins more time for big thinking, was anybody's guess for the moment. But the science faculties, which include Hutchins' severest critics, saw one hopeful sign in the shuffle: up to succeed Colwell came 53-year-old Dr. R. G. Gustavson, ex-president of the University of Colorado, the first scientist to get a top administrative job since Hutchins appeared on the Chicago scene...
Like most Congressmen, Fred Vinson found that his $10,000 salary did not go very far. When a $12,500-a-year job on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia opened up in 1938, he took it. He left it,, five years later, to succeed his longtime friend Jimmy Byrnes as Economic Stabilizer. There his manifold duties were aimed at holding the line against inflation. By & large, he did. He also got feuding war agencies to reconcile their differences. Once, when OPA and WFA were in conflict, he remarked mildly: "Oh, if they...
Perhaps the best explanation would be to go back to the days when TIME began. "If TIME is to succeed," its young editors reasoned, "we must make it something more than a magazine. For the service TIME offers is highly personal-and we must establish among our readers a unique understanding of what we are trying to do for them, so they will feel a special confidence in TIME...