Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While there is need for such commendable consideration of the crisis, it is unfortunate that a college football team is required to furnish an additional spectacle and that in times like these an indirect method of taxation is needed to supplant the chiseling of charity. But that is Yale's business...
Before the conference there will be a business meeting of the editors of "The Harvard Teachers Record," a new magazine, the first copy of which has just been issued by the Educational School. The editor is Professor Charles Swain Thomas, and under his direction the publication will supplant the items in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin hitherto prepared by the School...
...asking for articles on the moulders of public opinion, it should be suggested that there is room for comment on the heavy editorialization of the Hearst Metrotone News Reels. Another important influence that will probably grow in power in the next few years and tend in some ways to supplant the newspapers is the radio. But in the meanwhile, in waiting for Mr. Villard or some other qualified writer to offer information and intelligent reflections on these problems, you will benefit from reading the slightly less than 100 pages that make up this pamphlet...
...Flying Club has made plans to purchase a new training ship, which is to be delivered early in March. The aeroplane, which is a Travelair Trainer, has two cockpits, double controls, and is powered by a Curtis Wright Gypsy motor. It will supplant the Gypsy Moth which is now being used for training members who have not yet passed their license tests. The club owns another machine, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is now being used for cross-country work. The new one will be kept with the others either at the Boston airport...
...fine time to supplant the idle question 'How's business?' with 'Where's business?' Better than that, take a good, unwishful, morning-after look at your product, your sales plans, yourself. Is the commodity you make and hope to sell, styled, finished, priced to present needs-if your market knew the facts about it would it sell itself? Is your selling-energy out full-limit, are your sales and advertising plans extraordinarily gauged to extraordinary resistances-or are you cutting the power just as you are trying to make the hill? . . . [The Saturday Evening...