Word: replacedable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few years after slavery had been prohibited in the Nebraska Territory and with the pony express yet to be replaced by the overland telegraph, Roscoe Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1870. His father was a judge; his mother, an amateur botanist.
Instead, she weakened day by day. She was sleeping more & more of the time, calling less frequently for "Harry," taking less & less nourishment. She did not seem to know that her feather bed had been replaced by a power-driven hospital cot, which tilted gently back & forth to ease her...
Last week, after two decades, Denver threw Old Ben and his creaky machine out of office and replaced him with dark-haired, baby-faced Attorney J. (for James) Quigg Newton, 35.
He had to do it the hard way. First there were the qualifying matches, and he breezed through them; then Pancho liquidated two opponents who had been considered good enough to sidestep qualifying matches. His usual lethargic, mañana attitude was gone, replaced by a calm, white-toothed grin...
Both the Virgin and Mary Magdalene will undoubtedly have to be replaced. Tradition demands that these two important roles be played by unmarried women under 35. Having played the Virgin twice, Anni Rutz (who once studied at Florida's Rollins College) is now a spinsterly 37; Clara (Mary Magdalene...