Word: usurpation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlow offense. With Austle Harding ready to go, and with Frank Foley and Bob James ready to do some tossing of their own, there just remains to be seen who of Don Daughters, Bob Green, Torby Macdonald, and Joe Gardella will be the fair-haired boy who will usurp the honor of snagging the aerials...
...plan . . . misusing them for its own selfish purposes, the consequence of which will be that all economic life in the entire world will go to ruin. . . . For that country (or countries) which is realizing my plan only for its own sake and its own egoism will despotically usurp hegemony over the entire world, and drag all humanity into servility...
...aggravate "stir-simple"-ness. It is by keeping abreast of the times and keeping alive my interest in my country and the world that I counteract the appalling efforts of institutionalization which I see constantly around me. I have a job assignment and duties to perform. They largely usurp my time, but their very uniformity and conformity stifle interest. Hence it takes all the time which I can rightfully call "my own" to keep alive real interest. And since that time is limited, TIME steps in and serves its well-ordered purpose of giving me the potent results...
...Washington solemnly warned his and all succeeding generations of Americans that the Constitution could be more easily 'undermined' than 'directly overthrown.' Today time gives that prediction proof, and the most effective method of undermining the Constitution is by the doctrine that the Federal Government can usurp the police powers of the states by the simple method of licensing...
...into war, a power no prudent President would want and no rash President should have. Angered by such unaccustomed opposition, Franklin Roosevelt snapped that he could if he would put the U.S. into war in ten days. Thumping his desk, he thundered that he would not let Congress usurp his constitutional prerogatives...