Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses, a student is likely to have acquired the "course" attitude, and this can only be changed by a vital reduction in requirements. Holding the general examinations at the end of both the Junior and Senior years, as is now done, in certain departments, and increasing their number would supplant any necoealty for course examinations...
...shown by the figures of the A. F. of L. will inevitably lead to national bankruptcy and disaster, Upton Sinclair and Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, agreed in a debate last night held under the auspices of the Ford Hall Forum. On the question "Resolved, That production for use shall supplant production for profit," the two speakers differed widely. First to speak, Sinclair took the affirmative, reiterating the principles of his Epic Plan...
While he lived. Boss Long never ceased crying that the income tax investigation was a monstrous New Deal conspiracy to "get'' him. Last week there was no evidence that his removal had in any way cooled the Government's ardor. To supplant the local U. .S. District Attorney as prosecutor, it had taken onetime (1930-33) National Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock away from his duties as president of St. John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett...
Also to be seen : a clock with a million possible settings for the alarm; an automatic chewing gum vendor in which a miniature bronco kicks out the gum; an iron mask to supplant hot towels in facial massages ; a gadget for looping up trouser-legs to resemble knickerbockers; a powder-puff for removing neck wrinkles and double chins; a mechanical backscratcher...
Many an educator's imagination has been tickled by the idea that radio would some day become the most powerful medium at his command. A few rash professors predicted that it would supplant lectures and textbooks in the colleges...