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was and succeeded
We cannot truthfully say of anyone who has succeeded in entering deep into his sixties that he was never old.
Giselle was reluctant but Alex succeeded in persuading her to come back in five minutes and the door was shut again.
It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.
Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).
She was succeeded by Clarence Goyette.
The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.
He succeeded almost too well, because once she rose as if to charge, and he half wheeled his horse -- he was within fifty feet -- but she sank back.
One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.
Even before it was formally dissolved in 1912, the A.L.A.M. was succeeded by the Automobile Board of Trade, the direct lineal ancestor of the present-day Automobile Manufacturers Association.
They succeeded in eluding the curious at the hotel, but there was no chance of avoiding them at the nightclub.
The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
He never succeeded in devising such a method, but his best attempt was published in his book Sophist, where he introduced his division method.
At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.
When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.
Bradman was succeeded as Australian captain by Lindsay Hassett, who led the team to 4 1 victory in 1950 51.
Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.
Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.
He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son ( also stepson and former son-in-law ) Tiberius.
He was succeeded as bishop of Milan by Simplician.
Ahab was succeeded by Ahaziah and Jehoram who reigned over Israel until Jehu's revolt of 842 BC.

was and turn
He took the reins just below the bit and held them firmly, and it was his turn to smile now.
The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.
There was, it seems to me, enough in the openly declared principles and intentions of Russian leaders to alienate honorable men without their having to wait to see how it would turn out.
He had dared to defy nature, to turn his back to the Lorelei, and he was punished.
If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.
That development, in turn, formed the foundation of still more significant expansions in later years -- in gear cutting, in circular graduating, in index drilling, and in many other fields where accuracy was a paramount requirement.
Also important on the Brown & Sharpe scene, at the turn of the century, was Mr. Richmond Viall, Works Superintendent of the company from 1876 to 1910.
Every winter a kegful of this sauce was made and placed at the end of a row of four other kegs in the cellar, so that when its turn came, it was properly mellowed.
To greet them with repulsion would turn what before was neutral into something bad ; ;
Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;
Up to the turn of the century, contraception was condemned by all Christian churches as immoral, unnatural and contrary to divine law.
As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.
He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.
Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.
I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.
I was held up a bit trying to make a left turn.
Mr. Giorgio had started to turn left off Greenville Avenue onto Cherry Hill Road when his car was struck by the Pezza car, police said.
But plain old bean soup, served daily since the turn of the century ( at the insistence of the late Sen. Fred Dubois of Idaho ), made clear to the citizenry that the Senate's stomach was in the right place.
When it was my turn, I, too, printed the truth as I knew it about Batista, and rejoiced to see his regime topple.
Along about 4:30, just when it was getting to be about time to turn the audience over and toast them on the other side, Judy came on singing, in a short-skirted blue dress with a blue and white jacket that flapped in the wind.

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