Word: supplant
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Accordingly, the suggestion from Paris seems especially pertinent. To supplant the dead trees with mature full-grown trees is, briefly, the plan. The necessity of enduring a collection of ambitious but ineffective saplings while they try with dubious success to grow into trees is thus obviated. The period, necessarily of considerable length, between the time when the old trees begin to die and the time when other trees of healthy maturity appear to replace them is reduced to a minimum as is the risk of failure...
...turns to it be tutored will help himself, in that he will receive true tutoring instead of the predigested summaries learned today and forgotten tomorrow of the highly organized agencies. While we do not expect that any bureau of the nature of the present Employment Office can supplant those outside, which make tutoring a business, a little spontaneous co-operation would enlarge its field and make it better serve its purpose...
...political campaigns, was the conclusion reached by Mr. Herbert D. Croly '90, of Windsor, Vt., in the first of the series of Godkin lectures last night. Mr. Croly maintained that the law, which has been rated far above popular discretion in the United States political system, must soon either supplant government by human will, or must in turn be supplanted...
...Powys argued that with Socialism would come an end of graft in public office, because the incentive for private ownership would vanish with the elimination of private property. The speaker's ideal was to have machinery supplant much present human labor, so that men will have shorter working hours and consequently a chance to develop genius and individuality...
...unofficially agreed on the Advocate, with the warm approval of its graduate trustees, stands ready to take the step at any time. Whether or not the deplorable opposition of a few men is to be allowed to ruin an exceptional opportunity is uncertain. One united literary magazine to supplant two that are necessarily in a state of constant competition is an ideal to be striven for, and, it is to be hoped, one to be attained. PHILIP W. THAYER...