Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes?street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear? the grandes dames considered the little dressmaker around the corner good enough. But after the War there was little demand for expensive robes-de-style and no money to pay for them. So the couturiers set out to supplant the little seamstress around the corner by designing all women's clothes, even down to the negligee. These designs, simple, practical, not too expensive, brought the haute couture down from the ballroom to the tennis court...
President Lowell will be the guest speaker at the Winthrop House annual Senior Dinner, which will be held on Thursday in the Junior Common Room at 7 o'clock. The dinner is a formal affair, but will not supplant the regular House dinner, which will be held in the Dining Room at the regular time. John M. Lockwood '34, chairman of the House Committee, will preside. It is expected that Dr. Lowell's talk will be strictly informal...
...following: " 'We believe that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current is so strong that he cannot turn back or escape from it. We believe that we can keep Mr. Roosevelt there until we are ready to supplant him with a Stalin. We all think that Mr. Roosevelt is only the Kerensky of this revolution. " 'We are on the inside. We can control the avenues of influence. We can make the President believe that he is making decisions for himself.' "They said, 'A leader must appear...
...colleges feed the government with a steady stream of young talent which is absorbed through the lower appointive positions. In America no such entrance to politics is at present available and can be supplied only by a group of Public Service Colleges in the larger universities, colleges which would supplant the local party club as the origin of American statesmen...
...what they will, Princeton can never supplant Harvard in the affections of old Eli. Occupying as we do a sort of midway station between the two, our inclinations are not equally divided between the Tiger and the Crimson as would seem natural, but bear a slight twinge to the northward. Whether or not he will admit it, the average Yale undergraduate would rather be locked in an igloo for the winter with a Cantab than a Princetonian for all his smoothness (a term which, by the way, has lost some of its former snap). He might not understand the "indifference...