Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany has made no such abdication. If she should succeed to Britain's power a new navy will rule the seas-a navy which for practical purposes dates back only to 1898. Its creator was able, far-seeing Admiral von Tirpitz, famed for his bifurcated beard, whose active service extended to 1916. The brief German naval tradition is of daring, offensive, individual action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from...
...South America in order to prepare for his ultimate attack-and perhaps to subsidize a few Nazi revolutions; even to promise to make a lasting peace with the U. S. on condition that the U.S. stop rearmament. In these and other ways, including propaganda for "international friendship" he may succeed in postponing U. S. preparations for defense and hastening the time when he is ready to attack...
...succeed Balbo as Governor and Commander in Libya, Mussolini sent fierce Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...
Rabbis are trained in seminaries, must become skilled in the law and the prophets. Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, which has a $2,000,000 endowment and which is headed by grave, bearded Dr. Louis Finkelstein, is the most famed in the U. S. Elected last May to succeed the late, great Cyrus Adler, Dr. Finkelstein is, like Dr. Arzt, a graduate of the Seminary...
Presently, in Casablanca, arrived the man whom great Lyautey designated in 1916 to succeed him as Governor of Morocco: General Henri Joseph Eugène Gouraud. the white-whiskered "Lion of Champagne." who, wounded at Gallipoli, had his right arm amputated instead of nursed along, so that he could get back into action a month sooner. Whatever General Gouraud said to General Noguès, it had instant effect. Presently the latter, and also Governor General Georges Le Beau of Algeria, saluted the Pétain Government and announced "an end to hostilities" in North Africa...