Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe's novels so popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew to marry the boss' daughter, and, incidentally, to break the boss and supplant him in the business. Unfortunately, this bold adventurer becomes overconfident, and in the end the stock market crash gets him. His wife, played by Fay Wray, sticks by him, and the piece has a happy ending...
...waitresses, because of the conflicting engagements which some of the waiters would find unavoidable. The cost for such a program is admittedly more than the present. Whereas the total cost per week for one waitress is now $20.50, the cost of feeding the number of students necessary to supplant one waitress would be $21.25, that is, if the needed allotment of five student waiters to replace two of the present waitresses is made. The additional expense thus involved would bring the total cost for the year to a sum $2000 greater than the ordinary. This increase, nevertheless...
Whanging a big dinner bell, the Premier rang to order in Rome the National Council of Corporations, destined, most Italians assume, to supplant the Chamber. In Italy corporazioni ("corporations") are the higher groups which represent the basic Fascist syndicates of employers and employes. Every Italian, whatever his business, trade or profession, is represented by and must pay dues to the local syndicate of his occupation. He need not belong to the syndicate but he is bound by the bargains it makes respecting his wages and working hours or-if he is an employer-respecting the wages he must...
Professor Hedges has been secured to carry on the work of Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, who is absent on sabbatical leave. It is understood that this course will also supplant that of Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History on Manuscript materials on American Colonial History, which is to be omitted during the second half year...
...lists, the crushing taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days last week Tokyo, the world's third biggest city, saw the biggest war games ever shown a capital in peacetime...