Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staff last fortnight. "The addition of nuclear or thermonuclear types of weapons does not in any way replace the requirements for good manpower." The Senators listened with close attention, later confirmed President Eisenhower's appointment of General Lemnitzer to the Army Chief of Staff's job, to succeed General Maxwell Taylor July...
Even of Dudley House does succeed in attracting a hard core of "resident commuters," however, its problems as a commuter center are far from solved. In an article in the Dudley Reporter (the House's dittographed newspaper), a student claims that, for 80 per cent of commuters, "Dudley is no more than an occasional snack bar, and a ping-pong and dance hall for most of the others." He continues: "The same names appear with monotonous regularity in the House Committee, Dance Committee, sports events, at dances, and on the Reporter's masthead. The number of Dudley...
Arthur A. Maass, associate professor of Government and secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will become Professor of Government effective July 1. David E. Bell, research associate in the GSPA, will succeed Maass as Secretary of the School...
...people disapproved. "Perhaps," said Baptist Miller, "we've reached the point where these traditional divisions are no longer terribly important-and we've learned to take each other less seriously." Yet quite a few people were surprised at his appointment to succeed retiring Congregationalist Douglas Horton, 67: Harvard, with such top scholars on its faculty as Paul Tillich, Richard Niebuhr, Amos Wilder, and Britain's Christopher Dawson, had chosen a parish pastor...
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan was a kind of Chinese John Brown, a religious zealot who saw his rebellion succeed-for a time. A poor provincial schoolteacher, he rose to lead the Taiping Rebellion, which ravaged China between 1851 and 1864, and cost the lives of an estimated 20 million people. Since Hung was a professing if distinctly unorthodox Christian, who ruled some 30 million subjects at the peak of his power, he has left behind him one of the most tantalizing ifs in history: If he had toppled the Manchu Dynasty and mounted the Dragon Throne, would China...