Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many men, energy and enthusiasm are defects, for they overflow in all directions at once, and succeed in accomplishing nothing. But one of Roosevelt's greatest assets was his remarkable power of concentration. President Eliot recalls that "the intellectual power which most attracted the attention of his companions and teachers was an extraordinary capacity for concentrating every faculty on the work at hand, whether it were reading, writing, listening, or boxing. Thus he would read by himself in a room half-filled with noisy students without having his attention distracted even for an instant; indeed, he would make no answer...
...these assets is inadequate to produce the interest needed for a good tutorial session. Grades would indeed create a certain type of interest. But better instruction and teaching would create another, more desirable sort of interest. If departments simply impose grades on presently unsatisfactory tutorial programs, they will scarcely succeed in making tutorial important to the student or a valuable learning experience, though he may in time learn to do whatever it will take to get a B minus for satisfactory conversation on the philosophy of history. This grade would then be entered, given equal weight with his mark...
Founder Baha'u'llah ("the manifestation of God") had appointed his son ("the perfect man") to succeed him, and the son in turn appointed Shoghi Effendi Rabbani ("a man under divine guidance"). When Asian flu carried off 61-year-old Shoghi Effendi in London last month. Bahais from Illinois to Iran speculated on whom he had appointed to carry on as Guardian. At Bahai world headquarters in Haifa last week 26 of the 27 "Hands of the Cause of God," chief stewards of the faith, gathered to find the answer in Shoghi Effendi's will. But where...
...Joseph Frederick Cullman III, 45, executive vice president of Philip Morris Inc. (Philip Morris, Marlboro, Parliament), was elected president and chief executive officer to succeed O. Parker McComas, who died of a heart attack last week at 62. "Joe Third" Cullman had been groomed by McComas since he joined Philip Morris as vice president in 1954, when it bought Benson & Hedges. Member of a wealthy tobacco family (Manhattan's Cullman Bros. Inc.) that owns some 80,000 shares (2.5%) of Philip Morris common stock, Joe Cullman graduated from Yale ('35), worked as a $15-a-week cigar-store...
...Dale E. (for Elbert) Sharp, 54, executive vice president since 1955 of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., was named president and a director to succeed William L. Kleitz, who died Nov. 19. A graduate of Washburn University of Topeka (A.B., 1924) and New York University (M.B.A., 1928), Kansas-born Dale Sharp started in banking with Manhattan's old National Bank of Commerce, later absorbed by Guaranty Trust, taught economics at Bucknell University and finance at New York University before joining Guaranty Trust in 1931, was named vice president in charge of Guaranty's Midwest banking...