Word: supplanters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These orders are now regarded as final, except for the possibility of H.H. Fuller '23 going in at number 7 on the junior crew. Fuller rowed in that position on the seconds last year, and is likely to supplant Fiske. In this case, Cummings, who was originally assigned to the combination eight, will probably return to his old position there...
Stresemann, head of the People's Party, is considered the most able man in Germany and the only man who could supplant Cuno...
Hence, the main point emphasized is that the purpose of the new method is to supplement, not supplant, the old. The Department of Psychology at Yale after some experimentation, has adopted a plan whereby an examination is made up of two sets of questions of the objective type, to count one-third or one-half of the total mark, and a third division, containing old-style questions, to count two-thirds or one-half, as the case may be. In this way the originators hope to combine the advantages of both methods...
...showing of pictures in the Union is experimental in its nature, and this policy will be followed in the future, only if the members are in favor of such a plan. The purpose of these moving picture entertainments, it was stated, is not to supplant lectures...
...liberals. In consequence, they resort to every extreme to show themselves in full sympathy with the latest popular movement in every field. Under these circumstances, liberalism tends to become radicalism, reflected in every "latest fad,"--in post-impressionistic renderings of the "Nude Falling Downstairs" or enamelled legs to supplant hosiery. Convention, tradition, anything intellectually respectable or time-tried becomes "old-fashioned" and accordingly hopelessly damned. Every engaged couple do not insist upon having their marriage ceremony performed in the New Jersey surf in non-sinkable diving suits; or even in radio-ized airplanes over New York City where the nuptial...