Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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From the very beginning of the World War, Hoover's strategy was to produce results, not through dictation but through cooperation. As food "Administrator," a title chosen by himself, Hoover did not attempt to fulfill his talk by immediately having laws passed and rationing the nation, instead he put the whole business of producing and conserving food on a voluntary basis, depending on the concerted effort of the people in the right direction...
...student was blest with 250 pounds of beef, and because of this merit won a position on the line of the football team, he might become a class president. And the class would get on as well, I daresay, as if it had elected one of its young Disraelis instead...
...better. America must realize that meddlesome interference by a few vote-seeking politicians is not going to settle the Irish question; it will only make matters worse. The Irish problem must be settled by the Irish and the English. If the legislators at Washington refuse the League of Nations, instead of jeopardizing international goodwill, they should stick to the course of domestic affairs that they have chosen to follow...
...full course credit should be given in the future for the tutorial, preparation. The staff of tutors, moreover, should be doubled. Instead of regarding their tutees as an unimportant side issue and nuisance in their work as instructors in the University, the tutors might well devote the major part of their time to this duty, and become, as the catalogue euphemistically states, not task masters but friends...
...Chambers of Commerce vowing to disband if it were not. At present most of us are in the same state of mind as the old lady who declared not long ago that she "hoped that some day the clocks would tell time according to the will of the Almighty, instead of mixing up with Democratic politics...