Word: overstep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this demonstration did not go to impress the Great Man with the loyalty, fastidiousness, and devotion of his lieutenant, but rather served only to make him feel that his own judgment was not worth two onions, and that a subordinate might all too easily and without any just cause, overstep his duties and rights...
...Secretary of Commerce Roper, all called for a Federal "Coordinator" to effect economies in railroad operations through elimination of wasteful competition, duplication of service and facilities. Though differing in detail the plans specified regional Co-ordinators under one potent chief with powers broad enough to modify contracts and overstep anti-trust laws if necessary. With the Administration behind him the Coordinator would always have the power of life & death over the railroads-control of R. F. C. loans, only present source of railroad capital. Last week either I. C. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, who believes all railroads should be State...
...flatly refusing to help prolong the President's term by Reichstag action, whereupon the Government set Feb. 28 as election day. On the subject of election candidates Herr Hitler was glumly silent. Silent', too, was Oberst Epp. With so much almost within his grasp he did not want to overstep...
...duty of the editor to report to the students all projects undertaken by the undergraduates. Furthermore he should comment editorially upon matters of real importance. But to crusade against conditions which are not within his field, however evil he may think them to be is to overstep the bounds of both modesty and commonsense...
...cloister and the hearth will be somewhat aghast at this new crusading function of the University. Crusading youth has generally been treated with a tempered skepticism by the older generation. The legendary children's crusade to rescue Jerusalem found a watery grave. Only in sheer revulsion can youth completely overstep the examples of those older and often self-styled the wiser. Protests from students against new educational experiments are received with as much indifference by educators as, according to the sighs of Dr. Meiklejohn, educators receive from students...