Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wellesley '13, may not got a United States loan, but she may very well wind up with a high-paying job if Miss Harriet Oxehham, Wellesley '47, has anything to say about it. She sent a letter yesterday to the college's Board of Trustees urging that the Missimo succeed Mildred McAfee Horton as president on the latter's retirement this June...
...rumored yesterday that a newly-planned attempt on the life of the owl would succeed, but no new attack had occurred by midnight...
...father, a fiery Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...
Because of this, the rumor persisted that he planned to unseat Tobin. But he has enormous power with Tobin in office and will probably get more. The notion that he is scheming to succeed Bill Green as president of the A.F.L. also seems unsound-it is a post to which strong men are not elected...
Marxist-Leninist holy writ explains almost everything. Last week, one of its serious omissions was trumpeted to the world by Marxist-Leninist Tito of Yugoslavia. The omission: what happens when Communist revolutions succeed in two countries independently. What is the relation between the two countries...