Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Prague: "Perhaps we are too much in the middle of things to see clearly, or else we do not learn everything here in Europe. . . . You succeed in giving European news before it is given in Europe...
...Loyalist General Vicente Rojo, Chief of Staff and Commander of the Catalonian Army, made his only public speech of the war: ''You can conquer more ground with material strength, but you cannot conquer the people. Even if you succeed in crushing us you could be sure that from the ruins of our cities and the bones of our dead there would rise the ideal of liberty and independence, which is fed by the blood of our soldiers...
...Professor Henry Ernest Sigerist, who w:as then teaching history of medicine at the University of Leipzig, little realized that the major phase of his career was starting in Auerbach's Keller. Five years later, a short time before he died, old Dr. Welch asked Dr. Sigerist to succeed him as head of the History of Medicine Institute...
...Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed Lou Ruppel, who resigned last month (TIME...
Thirty-four years ago, when Conductor Stock left his place among the orchestra's viola players to succeed Thomas as the Chicago Symphony's head man, Chicago concertgoers were skeptical. During his first year Chicago newspapers printed scathing articles about the need for a more eminent conductor. But patient, plodding Stock stuck to his guns. In the many seasons since then he has made himself a reputation as one of the topflight U. S. conductors. Genial Frederick Stock prefers, and conducts best, the works of the German romantics, but he gives his audience a more varied and balanced...