Word: succeed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 8, 1941: "Wendell Willkie will succeed Will Hays at the end of the year as czar of the movie industry...
...issue is weakest in its poetry. Gray Burr's "Letter to Dead Soldiers" is perhaps the best for its occasional originality of imagery; even its obscurity appears as mock-virtue beside the apparent triteness of most other poems. Ormand deKay's "Floor Show Fantastico" would succeed as a piece of light and amusing by-play if its structure were not completely destroyed by two unnecessary lines, while John Crockett comes no closer to reality in his work on the war than he did when limited to suburban scenes...
Private John O. Scheuermann has been assigned to the enlisted detachment of the unit to succeed Master Sergeant T. Collins, who has been assigned to duty at Fort Knox, Ky. Private Scheuermann was transferred from First Service Command headquarters...
...they have been knit together by understanding. Can the arrangements of the peacemakers hold unless they are understood by the peoples to whom they apply? Can any degree of world government and law succeed without the consent of the governed; i.e., a world consensus about what is true and truly advantageous...
Like his close friend Ben Lear (whom he was slated to succeed when he was pulled away from his corps command last October), cocky, Wyoming-born, West Point-educated Lloyd Fredendall is a spit-&-polish disciplinarian, a top-notch administrator, a stern critic of incompetent commanders. At one maneuver critique last summer he cracked: "The opposing commanders got their lines so far extended it would have taken a week to send a postcard from one end to the other...