Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia University was looking for a new president to succeed retired 84-year-old Nicholas Murray Butler. The job, reported to pay $25,000 a year, is the ripest education plum in the U.S. And Sproul let it be known that he was considering a big offer...
...large scale immigration into Palestine "because of the large British army that would be required there to keep peace." Yet today, there is a British army of well over 100,000 in the Holy Land whose apparent function is to wipe out the Jewish underground. If the British could succeed in this venture. Palestine would house a permanent Jewish minority. Naturally, the Arab League, even if cut off in Palestine, would make its weight felt throughout the other British interests in the Middle East. After five years, the Arab majority and the British Government would probably declare the plan...
...role, that of lady Bracknell, Margaret Rutherford tries to create her own interpretation one of saga city rather than more overwhelming personality but she does not seem able to escape completely the characterization by Edith Evans, made famous in London and on records, and she does not, therefore, entirely succeed...
...professional football and boxing following close upon each other's heels. A gambling industry of such size and resources as the one with which we seem to be saddled makes many more such attempts at insuring some desired victory inevitable, and some of them are quite likely to succeed without being detected...
...ultimate solution, of course, will be to stamp out the gambling racket itself, but such a task is not one to be accomplished over night, and more immediate preventive measures are urgent. On the other hand, if gamblers were given a completely free rein they would soon succeed in putting themselves out of business by their unchecked bribery, which might quickly reduce all professional sports to the level of professional wrestling, upon which, for some reason, few bets are taken...