Word: supplanter
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...must not forget our own faith; we must be sensitive to the dangers that lurk in any choice. But choose we must, and we shall be silly dupes if we forget that again and again in the past thirty years, just such preparations in other countries have aided to supplant existing governments, when the time was ripe...
Meanwhile, the three record styles, with the infinite variety of attachments and gadgets for playing them, will be offered for sale. Just about the time that the public makes up its mind on these records, tape will probably come along and supplant them...
...column--as yet untitled--by Geoffrey Bush. Far and away the best writer in this issue, Bush comments, New Yorker-style, on Archibald MacLeish and the Brattle Players with humor and imagination. His columns will be something to look for in future issues. the new department could and should supplant the self-conscious, posturing "Notes from 40 Bow Street" column, which provides vital data about the contributors, such as that they are enrolled in an advanced composition course, or that they are "currently at work on a novel...
...charged that the Sullivan Bill would intimidate and silence every teacher who feared that something he said might be construed as being atheistic or communistic, and thus "caution would replace innovation, and conformity would supplant controversy...
Like the city of Boston, the freshman Union Committee is having charter trouble. Wednesday night, the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs presented a new constitution at a meeting with Dean Leighton, Yard proctors, and Union Committeemen. That document would supplant the old system, under which the dean appoints Union Committee members with provisions for an election early in each fall. But the Council's proposals were received ill-favoredly by the freshmen representatives...