Word: supplant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplant the individual living rooms, the Provost said more emphasis would be placed on the construction of common rooms and smaller spaces in the building suitable for holding seminars and housing the various clubs and activities...
...only definite change in this week's starting lineup for the Varsity will be Glynn at center, although Ned Dewey, fully healed, may supplant either Davis or Houston at one of the tackles. "I never started a second team in my life," said Harlow, "and I don't intend to start now." New London correspondents please copy...
...changes--or, more accurately, a change-and-a-half--were announced yesterday by Harlow in his starting lineup. Fullback Vince Moravec, who was injured in practice on Monday, has recovered sufficiently to supplant Bob Cowen at the bucking post, and for the quarterback spot Frank Miklos will run the club if Harvard receives, while Henry Goethals will start if the Crimson kicks...
Considine explained that his Committee, an outgrowth of wide undergraduate sentiment that the Council could be made more democratic, would keep its original pledge not to disband until its suggestions are duly considered by the Council. He reiterated the group's two basic recommendations: to supplant elections-at-large by direct mechanisms and to allot to the basic units of the undergraduate body, the Houses, proportional delegation to the Council...
After an informal poll of students in the class meeting of English 23b yesterday morning. Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, indicated that the present arrangement of the course-into Shakespearian tragedies and comedies-would be continued next year. This will supplant the list in the new catalogue, which is a return to the pre-1945 division into early and late plays...