Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...despite Webb's superficiality, his is the best essay in the book. The other essays try to examine various aspects of the cultural history of the West, but they mainly succeed only in relating factual anecdotes...
...seemed to him that there was only one work in life which he could possibly do, and that this was writing plays, and that if he could not succeed in this work, he had better die, since any other life than the life of a playwright and the theatre was not to be endured...
...cash prize was recognition of Pearson's leadership in creating the United Nations Emergency Force to guard the peace in the Middle East. Already a front runner to succeed Louis St. Laurent (who sent in his resignation as Liberal leader in September), Nobel Winner Pearson became an odds-on favorite to take over as leader when the Liberals meet in January to make their choice...
Functionless Fertility. To achieve any lasting solution for poverty, underdeveloped nations must thus not only race to create enough jobs for the expanding work force but must succeed in boosting per capita gross national product at least 5% annually (v. 2.5% for the U.S. in 1957), with up-to-date machinery and management methods, hydroelectric energy, nuclear power, research to find substitutes for earth's dwindling resources. This means also, as Economist Staley urged, that governments must be prepared to make a "deep-going transformation in methods of work, in education, in administration, even in social institutions like...
...Frank W. Jenks, 60, became president of International Harvester, succeeding Peter V. Moulder, president since May 1956, who reached Harvester's normal retirement age of 65 this week. Reserved and meticulous, Frank Jenks started with International Harvester as a clerk in Richmond in 1914, won a vice-presidency for his work bolstering time-payment sales to farmers as manager of Harvester's credit bureau, was named executive vice president when President Moulder took over. Jenks, who is also slated to succeed Chairman and Chief Executive John McCaffrey, now past retirement age, faces the task of shoring up International...