Word: supplant
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...competition for an anonymous prize of $1,000 offered for a new Yale song of the anthem type, nothing could be found that seemed worthy either of Yale or a thousand dollars. So the authorities have been forced to turn to more inspired circles for a chorus that will supplant "For God, for Country, and for Yale...
...Klux Klan's " efforts to supplant organized government, to promote religious intolerance, racial antagonisms and bigotry...
...impressionists, pointillists, postimpressionists, cubists, orphists, synchromists and what not, whom the 19th and 20th Centuries spawned. Modernist art is not yet aware of itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding of their respective purposes is spread abroad, the antagonism will vanish...
...given money to Greece. Inquired The Wall Street Journal: New York World cable says you deposited two and a half million dollars to guarantee Italian reparations, but not solely altruistic as with English, French and America capitalists you had big scheme afoot to develop Salonica Ghevgely Railroad, which would supplant Egypt Oriental route by Italy. Give me personal liberty to speak in your defense...
Will the Argentine Supplant Balieff and King Tut in Popular Favor? It is a subconscious maxim with Mr. Lee Shubert, Mr. George White and Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld that " - the things you will learn from the yellow an' brown They'll 'elp you a lot with the white." They seek glittering material for their revues from the life of other worlds. Their stages became hothouses where strange exotic plants, emerald, gold and scarlet, are bought across the seas for a brief blossoming. For 20 years American producing gardeners have been transplanting color, sound and movement - so great...