Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...closing, Professor Rotch said that it was not safe to prophesy as to the future, but this might be said, that neither the dirigible balloon nor the aeroplane will ever supplant our present means of transportation...
...Seniors, due to the increasing number of students who complete the work for the degree in three years. The Lawrence Scientific School, which is passing out of existence as an undergraduate department, shows an expected decrease--from 202 to 118; but the Graduate School of Applied Science, which will supplant it, has more than doubled in numbers. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences shows an increase of 18 in the number of resident students. The Divinity School has thus far enrolled 9 students less than last year. The Law School shows a net gain of 17; but a gain...
...actual condition of socialism, the nearest approaches having been co-operative organizations dependent on the ordinary means of production for their materials. When these have succeeded, they have gradually dropped their socialistic features, and have become ordinary individualistic organizations. Consistent socialism can not depend on private capitalism, but must supplant...
...shown to be self-corrective or capable of correction by statute. Then attempting the solution of this problem, the author brings forward evidence tending to show that most trusts have not raised prices and have assembled sufficient economies to compose an advantage over the competing concerns which they supplant. Politically most of the evils of monopoly carry with them their own cure. Yet two evils--railway discrimination and overcapitalization -- stand out as not self corrective. The remainder of the book is devoted to a careful discussion of proposed statutory or common law remedies for these evils...
...always a man of judgement and experience, with a keen eye and a knowledge of detail which, if often empirical, is always positive. His power lies in these qualities, and he is able to exact implicit obedience. The proposed scheme of examinations would not--could not, in fact--supplant his watchfulness; but it might aid him by finding out the real cause of what he calls 'staleness...