Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas Danner '46 Naval ROTC, will succeed O'Day as chairman of the committee for the MacMillan Cup, for which members of the yachting association compete annually. The final dinghy event of the 1943 season, a Brown University invitation meet held November 7 at Providence, was won by the cadets of the Coast Guard Academy, with M. I. T. taking second honors...
...ebbed and sickened. He suffered when supplies were withheld from him, his dispatches were betrayed to the enemy, his promotion was "protracted so studiously" that it became a "scandal," and from the intrigues against him so persistent that Aldington has no explanation for them beyond this-that "such intrigues succeed partly because the ordinary men and women fighting, suffering, and paying for a war cannot believe them possible." He was superseded again & again-sensationally after Vimiero, when he was in the midst of a brilliant campaign at the very moment of victory...
...training which would normally take many years, it behooves us all to make an exceptional effort to achieve as much as we can in the short time at our disposal. The academic pace set for all is terrific, but a very great percentage of you will be able to succeed in mastering...
Bill Lamborn, the rotund, one-armed reception clerk who has presided at the Governor's office for most of his 65 years, has seen four men depart and run for the Presidency, and two of them succeed. He goes about his business amiably conscious of his responsibilities, knowing the odds are good that he will be serving another President in his lifetime...
Before penicillin can be called a cure for syphilis, says Dr. Mahoney. it must succeed in a huge number of cases over a long period. Such a workout must wait until more penicillin is available, probably after the war. But Dr. Mahoney, whom other syphilologists call a "sound" man, was enough impressed by penicillin's performance to say that "a reconstruction of syphilis therapy may be necessary." And a doctor who took the platform to comment on his speech went even further. Said he: "This is probably the most significant paper ever presented in the medical field...