Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jean Kerning '50 will succeed her as head of Radcliffe's newest organization. No other officers have yet been elected...
...Conant's faith and persistency 'when others faltered, his determination that American science must not fail in a field in which German science might succeed, that carried the project through periods of apparent defeat to the ultimate triumph...
Back in the U.S., Gleitsmann continued the search on another plane: "I discovered that I would have to learn to paint all over again. The old technique was not flexible enough. I felt [I] could net succeed unless I developed a painting procedure that would call into play all the possibilities of color, texture, etc. that I was capable of producing." Last week's award showed that his search had taken him a piece along the road...
Four hundred faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology were hastily convened to hear the news. President Karl T. Compton, 61, was leaving for a new job after 18 years: he would succeed Vannevar Bush as boss of the nation's military research organization, the Research and Development Board. Faculty members, some with tears in their eyes, rose to salute Compton after he made the announcement. Then Compton introduced his 44-year-old successor, Dr. James R. Killian...
Will Freeman's rescue party succeed? On the evidence so far, the answer must be a qualified yes. He has made Washington human, in the sense that he displays human feelings, but he has not-in the first two volumes, at least-made of George Washington a more lovable figure for popular consumption. Readers of the seven thick volumes on Lee and his generals know that Freeman is not a portrait painter who gets his effect with quick, inspired strokes; his method is careful and cumulative. His works are what book reviewers are apt to call monumental, and monumental...