Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...days the Voice, harsh, flat and earnest, had dinned from railroad sidings, auditoriums, all around the radio dial. It did not stop until Nov. 5. There, according to convention, it should have stopped for good, since a majority of the voters voted for a golden voice instead. But the election, far from striking the Voice dumb, gave it new inspiration...
British hearts sank. The Rangitiki and Cornish City were members of a big convoy, perhaps 30 or 40 merchantmen, that had left Halifax a week prior, bound straight across to Great Britain. Even allowing for rough weather and zigzagging, they should have been nearly across instead of only halfway between Cape Race, N. F. and North Ireland. They were in a stretch between where their warship escorts from Canada left them and their escorts from Britain would pick them up. None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed...
...innovation in preparations for their twenty-fifty reunion next year, the Class of 1916 will vote for their Chief Marshal from a slate selected by a nominating committee instead of by choosing them at random from the class, as has been done until this year...
Russ Randolph and his Harvardians will provide the music for this evening's Stag and Doe Dance in Memorial Hall instead of Stan Brown's Band, as was erroneously announced in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Willkie set forth five points to which the administration ought to adhere if we are to have a "sound and solvent" financial history, instead of the inflation which he sees impending...