Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Panting and pugnacious, he concluded: "But they do not succeed in disturbing our calm...
...Muncie, Bloomington and Lafayette. It began to hire soloists, guest conductors. This season it easily met a $25,000 budget. Last week the Indianapolis Symphony announced its most ambitious plans to date. Old Conductor Schaefer will retire. Fabien Sevitzky, conductor of Boston's People's Symphony, will succeed him with a three-year contract, his reward for a sensational guest performance this winter. The orchestra plans 20 home concerts, 15 more on a Statewide tour...
...covering his peaceful 98th birthday celebration: "My job is to keep any of the other fellows from ever becoming the oldest living Harvard graduate." But yesterday morning, Mr. Rogers died, concluding a long career, stable and energetic to the end, which sets a notable example to those who will succeed him in years to come as the oldest representative of the oldest University in America...
Although it would be unfair to the men in the House to say that they live to eat, rather than eat to live; it cannot be denied that the Winthrop House Dining Hall is popularly elected as that part of the House "most likely to succeed." Every man in the House will agree that the popularity of the dining hall can be attributed to Mrs. De Pinto, the Head Waitress. The academic year is hardly launched before Mrs. "Dee" knows the names of all "her boys." Her charming smile and friendly word has brightened up many a luncheon or dinner...
...Simpson Grant was made by the Civil War. Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini was made by the San Francisco Fire. Noah and Cincinnati's City Manager Clarence Addison Dykstra were alike floated up to eminence by a flood. Last week City Manager Dykstra, the most prominently mentioned candidate to succeed ousted Glenn Frank as President of the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Dec. 28; Jan. 18), met three of the University's Progressive regents in Chicago to discuss the job. He did not like having his salary cut from Cincinnati's $25,000 to Wisconsin...