Word: overstepping
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...Richard Ney) is down from Oxford with an acute case of maturity and social consciousness. There are the youngsters (Christopher Severn and Clare Sandars). Mrs. Miniver (a suburban Candida) indulges the deliciously guilty feeling of having overspent her allowance on a gaudy hat. Mr. Miniver can overstep his architect's income for a sporty new car. Tomorrow will always balance the books...
...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...