Word: supplanting
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...printed page to stage to screen even somebody as lively as father is bound to lose a little briskness, but this celluloid version lacks something besides originality. "Life" can be quite gay when Clarence Day is encountered in the book, where the innuendoes and phraseology of his clever creators supplant visual aids, or in the play, where the three dimensionality of the stage draws an audience into his library. But, on the screen, it takes a few reels to get used to father, and even then you may be left wondering whether the movie is just an avaricious son cashing...
...first Freshman Register since 1941 will supplant the recently cancelled Red Book this fall, the Council announced yesterday through Robert S. Leventhal '48, who is slated to manage the financial affairs of the revived publication...
...explained, however, that Segndin avia is not only physically able to take the lead in education, art, painting, and music in Europe, but that the "inherited traditions of free thinking" of its universities qualify it to supplant France and Germany as the cultural center...
Starting with a nucleus of talent from his own organization, Allegretti hopes to incorporate other local talent, both from within the College and from such sources of talent as Radcliffe and Wellesley. This radio group will supplant the HDC's present reading theater group, and "will be an opportunity to go into far more ambitious productions than the limited facilities at College will allow," he predicts. "With their equipment we can even put on Orson Welles type shows...
...into History with an enthusiasm stimulated by childhood readings in the historical novels of Henry. He sailed through graduating in 1919, and making Phi Beta Kappa along with his classmate, Professor Gordon Allport. "The modern era with its closeness of instructor and student was beginning to supplant the old one, in which professors were in the main people apart." Another undoubtedly invigorating circumstance was the fact of having Harold Laski for a tutor for three years. "Since I was influenced strongly and simultaneously by Laski and by Irvin Babbitt, who with his theories of 'inner cheeks' you might call Conservative...