Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strict immigration curbs keep Australia rather empty, but safe for seven million inhabitants who prefer kangaroos to competition. Even when it came to picking the King's Governor General for the Dominion, the Australian Labor Party wanted no "foreigners" to succeed the Duke of Gloucester (whose chief of staff had been charged with an unfair labor practice after a row with his valet). So Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, an ex-locomotive engineer, produced from the Labor Party's own marsupial pouch the new Governor General, William John McKell, Prime Minister of New South Wales...
...levels of Education. 1946 has not brought the answer, and while the last wave of veterans surges through the colleges, planners look to broad scholarship programs to take up the slack left by loose planning. Scholarships, too, are a stopgap measure compared to federal aid. But scholarships succeed in bringing leadership to the colleges, whereas Mr. Conant's two-year plan could do little but stunt and discourage this very leadership...
Handsome, popular, 40-year-old Prince Gustaf Adolf's future was assured. Famed in his own right as an Olympic champion horseman, he would one day succeed his 88-year-old grandfather and 64-year-old father as King of Sweden...
...guest appearances in his first visit to the U.S., Munch was allowed to pick his own programs. In Boston, where he made a big hit, Beacon Hill rustled with rumors that he would succeed 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky as the Boston's permanent conductor...
...world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high disaster...