Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your issue of Oct. 31 is an excellent sample of what is wrong with the U.S. today. Your cover and feature article are devoted to Designer Raymond Loewy, prophet of a world of mechanized madness, instead of to Philosopher John Dewey. You are to be congratulated, however, on your excellent coverage of both...
...diggers back to work immediately on the same terms that he had haughtily rejected. But he served notice that the strike would be on again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
...plot, they promptly ordered CNAC (China National Aviation Corp.) and CATC (Central Air Transport Corp.) to shift all operations from Hong Kong to Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads of pilots and crewmen chose instead to slip off from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield and head for Red China. Seventy more Nationalist-owned planes remained grounded at Hong Kong. Pro-Communist personnel guarded them against seizure by Nationalist agents, who were forced to seek help in unsympathetic British colonial courts. Hong Kong...
...exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss me because I smoke Lucky Strikes...
...allowing Harvard a single point. The string was broken by Percy Hanghton's 1908 eleven, which triumphed, 4 to 0, at New Haven, when Vic Kennard dropkicked a field goal from the 28-yard line. These were the days when men still dropkicked, and field goals counted four points instead of three...