Word: supplanting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spree, due to the erroneous impression that by taking insulin, dietary restrictions could be disregarded. This is wrong, and I think that your article fosters the idea. On the contrary, a Diabetic taking insulin must be more careful of his diet than when not taking it! Insulin does not supplant, but only aids diet in the control of Diabetes...
...shot: Dr. Held listening with growing interest to his wife's tirade at him for mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna...
Preliminary agreement on a new concession to supplant the disputed D'Arcy oil leases of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. was reached three weeks ago (TIME, May 1). Last week came the final agreement and publication of the terms. Well satisfied, Britain's "Petrol Diplomat," tall, professorial Chairman Sir John Cadman of Anglo-Persian, slipped a copy of the new agreement in his pocket, packed his grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from...
...gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee entrusted by the Harvard Corporation with the regulation and conduct of athletic sports. Should the time come when a majority of Harvard undergraduates wish to abandon training as wisely determined by years of experience and supplant instead a policy of non-training, the time for with drawal of the college from all intercollegiate sports will be at hand. --The H.A.A. News...
...create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown. Last week he was a patient of the Mayo Clinic. He had long wanted to abdicate his research directorship. But no one with G. E. was willing to supplant him, and President Gerard Swope would bring in no outsider. Last week President Swope made a decision, accepted Dr. Whitney's resignation as director of research, continued him as vice president in charge of the 300 scientists whom the corporation employs. Promoted to stand between those scientists and demands...