All 5 Uses

succession
in
Atlas Shrugged
(Edited)

It was a succession of minutes, but it hit them as a single whole.
Chpt 1.8 *

succession = series (one after another)
It was this shape that the screams were now tearing away from him; he felt as if the ringing ceased to be sounds and became a succession of slashes hitting his skull.
Chpt 2.8
She faced, with the same look of detachment, a succession of men who went in and out of her office with over hurried steps and hands fumbling in superfluous gestures.
Chpt 2.8
They've had two bad years in succession, but they have a bumper crop this fall-and they have to be able to harvest it.
Chpt 3.5

succession = a row (one after the other)
In the next instant, he heard the dry crack of a gunshot, then three answering cracks in swift succession, like an angry hand slapping a sudden assailant.
Chpt 3.6

succession = sequence (one after another)

Definitions:

(1) (succession as in: a succession of events)
series or sequence (one after another)
(2) (succession as in: presidential line of succession)
replacement -- especially someone to taking a job or position after another leaves it
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)