Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional football will never supplant college games in popularity, Campbell predicted. "The tradition and atmosphere of college games draws the crowds as much as the playing itself," he said...
...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...
...gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Littauer, is Scheduled to take shape. This year also the Graduate School of Education has been reorganized. The curriculum will be more closely related to that of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and general examinations will largely supplant course credits in the pursuit of the degree. Finally, President Conant must continue his search for a Dean for the Law School, a post vacant since the resignation of Dean Roscoe Pound last year...
Since radial air-cooled engines began to supplant other types, their power has been steadily stepped up by supercharging, higher compression, stronger parts and fuels with higher octane rating. Pratt & Whitney began to think that not much more could be asked of radial engines in single nine-cylinder banks. Since 1929 they have been tinkering with 14 cylinders in two banks, with smaller bores and lighter, more frequent power impulses...
...Senator Black quietly asked the Senate for $25,000 to continue his efforts, loudly told the Press: "I am not surprised that the Liberty League and Mr. Hearst and others who think they are bigger than the Government should try to enjoin the Senate. They have already tried to supplant the Supreme Court. There is nothing they would not attempt to do to continue the operation of the United States Government like Mr. Hearst administers his baronial estate...