Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...
...Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...
...This latest volume in the Today and Tomorrow Series is perhaps the lightest, but not the least pleasing. It could hardly be called an exhaustive discourse on all dragons, taking up only the early Greek, early Christian, mediaeval and ancient Egyptian species and their variants. But it does succeed in classifying these so that they may be readily recognized if met. Draconist Stokes does not really believe there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences of brontosauri and kindred fauna. But he is very polite...
Said Trustee Swift: "We are delighted ... he is a man supremely fitted to succeed the three presidents, Harper, Judson and Burton, under whose leadership the university has seen its first chapters of development...
...Nahum Sokolov, member of the Executive Committee, was chosen to succeed Dr. Weizmann as President...