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...Caucasus. There were long secret discussions between Rykov, Kamenev and Stalin (the last two, with Zinoviev, formed the so-called triumvirate, a body bitterly opposed to Trotzky). Suddenly Trotzky came back. Zinoviev departed. The Council of Commissars is to be reshuffled. Rumors say that Trotzky is to supplant Krassin as Commissar of Foreign Trade, Kamenev is to supplant Zinoviev as Chairman of the Internationale, "other employment" is to be found for Zinoviev...
...ultimate goal. President Lowell declares that "there is no intention of gradually substituting tutorial work for courses of instruction. Both are necessary. Each of them has its own merits, and both are means to a common end, the highest development of the individual student." It was therefore not to supplant the course method that the tutorial system was inaugurated at Harvard...
...seems to rest on intuition, a process which psychologists do not entirely understand. Common sense in character judgments of the intuitive sort, correctly attributed to women, rest upon just such an apprehension of the total personality. Analysis of personality will help us to understand people, but it will never supplant this intuitive appreciation of the personality of our associates...
...effect a saving in fuel bills of from 25 to 50% over coal-burning steam locomotives. The new engine has resulted from experiments conducted by Baldwin over . The past ten years. Disclaiming stores that the new Diesel locomotive would "revolutionize the locomotive industry," Mr. Vauclain held that it Would supplant steam locomotives in certain kinds of work, such as running across long, water less territories, or where oil is abundant and coal is not, or where smoke is a nuisance, or on switching jobs...
...substitution for the Norris Bill. While things were so disposed, no less than 35 amendments were proposed to the Underwood Bill which was itself an amendment. All these had to be disposed of before a vote could be taken on the Underwood Bill to determine whether it would supplant the Norris Bill. If the Underwood Bill should be voted in as an entire substitute for the Norris Bill, then Senator Norris threatened he would offer another bill as an entire substitute for the Underwood Bill. All this had to be settled before the Underwood Bill could come to a final...