Word: replacedable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a car owner cried that postwar models seemed to have been purposely constructed to "damage easy and repair hard." On several new cars the whole engine had to be unbolted and lifted before the crankcase pan could be removed. Fenders had become wholly or partly an integral part of...
When Britain was the leading industrial power it was also the great market for food and raw materials, and by virtue of this position in the vortex of world trade, the great exchange clearinghouse. The U.S., which replaced Britain in world power, was no clearinghouse; it consistently sold more abroad...
There are over 30,000 such Americans in Paris now. At the Sorbonne, where vacation courses are being held in French Grammar and Civilization, the traditional starving student from the provinces has been replaced temporarily by the seersuckered foreigner, and Harvard club ties are seen flashing around old stone cloisters...
Representatives of the college rested with a five-man delegation elected last spring. In addition to Houghteling, the contingent included Alfred M. Goodlec, Jr. '50, Robert L. Fischelis '50, Robert C. Fisher '51, and Paul L. Wright '49, an alternate originally who replaced Frederick L. Deane '50.
Ana has replaced them all. The power of the aristocrats, the industrialists, the royal playboys and the royal concubines has passed into her hands. She runs Rumania. Her title is Foreign Minister, but her job is that of Stalin's proconsul. Of the seven telephones on her office desk...