Word: usurper
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...London, after a touch of goose flesh, has regained its habitual British sangfroid. Financial writers point out London's superior experience in foreign trade and its physical nearness to the world's ports compared with New York's. It has no intention of seeing the dollar usurp further the central and basic position in international trade occupied so long by the pound sterling. On the other hand, America's impregnable strength in gold reserves, and the absence of the gold standard just at present in British international financing, are clearly recognized. In Germany, the question...
...remarkable for its ease and simplicity. Always laughable and sometimes exceedingly comical he has an unassuming dignity and a natural shrewdness that instantly win over the grumbling people of Barataria; in the final scene his popularity protects him from the machinations of the ambitious nobles, who seek to usurp the crown. In his comedy parts he is substantially aided by Robert Rosaire, who has the strenuous role of Dapple, Sancho's beloved donkey. But the entire east is a strong one; the performance is smooth and finished, the scenes are spectacular and interesting...
...athletics but to religious, political, social, and educational questions of the day, with good discussions and editorials. They are for the most part aware of modern life, and are better balanced in their outlook on it. Football is a fine thing, no one regrets it, until it comes to usurp the place of other things just as fine and finer...
...athletics has done much to establish the habit of athletics. It has also helped establish an illusion of life that makes harsh physical effort the thing; even after men go from the campus into business or the professions. . . . The vicious effect of it is this, that it tends to usurp all of one's waking hours and to cast them into activity, banishing that needed and delightful twilight zone of reverie and reflection that naturally intervenes between work and slumber. . . . The one who invented the crawly term of "lounge-lizard" is no friend of mine. He has laid an undeserved...
...first objection. With our one all-powerful vote in the supreme council, it would be impossible for any measures to be passed against our desires. Furthermore it is the right of Congress alone to declare war, and there is nothing in the covenant that tends to usurp that right...