Word: succeeded
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Yale is out shopping for a new president to succeed Charles Seymour Y '08, the incumbent, who announced last April that he will retire July...
McCarthy said that Walter Reuther and Phillip Murray were using the communist issue as a shield in their attempt to shackle any unions who were opposing Reuther's bid to succeed Murray. He also accused the right wingers "of making the CIO a tail to the Democratic party...
...dealing mainly in abstract ideas. It is possible to determine objectively, if not statistically, whether tutorial is more effective educationally than lectures; but it may prove to be impossible to determine how much tutorial contributes to the making of the "whole man". The possibility that the committee may not succeed has been recognized: it is not committed to making a report, but is just "considering...
When the five Securities & Exchange Commissioners picked a chairman last week, they surprised and cheered Wall Street. Their choice: Harry A. McDonald, 55, the first Republican boss of SEC since it was set up in 1934. SEC's three Democratic commissioners voted for McDonald to succeed Edmond Hanrahan, who resigned as SEC chairman last month (TIME, Oct. 24). Although the White House was mum, President Truman apparently approved also...
...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...