Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Instead of formations of 50 and 60 at a time, a larger number of twenties and thirties have been scattering up and down the Eastern Counties." The Germans weVe diffusing their terror...
...Father Odo's mission was said to be to sell the U. S. on Hitler's plan for a united Christian Europe and the conquest of pagan Russia. Two things were wrong with this story: 1) Father Odo was exiled by the Nazis seven years ago; 2) instead of persuading U. S. bigwigs, he stayed quietly at a Benedictine church in The Bronx...
...normal air, breathing is controlled by the respiratory centre in the medulla, which is part of the brain. But this centre is itself enfeebled by oxygen lack, passes control to secondary centres, the carotid bodies in the neck and the aortic body near the heart. Lack of oxygen stimulates instead of enfeebling these secondary centres, and they send out stronger and stronger impulses to the respiration muscles. If the lungs suddenly get more oxygen, the carotid and aortic bodies rest, turn back control to the centre in the medulla. But that stupefied centre may not be in shape to take...
...selective breeding strikes a snag when golden-haired Suzanna, chosen to mate with one of the elders who heavily depends on "signs" from on high, prefers instead the young inventor, who has no need of heavenly go signals...
...polls in a Democratic worker's car, Mrs. Edward Steele of Peoria, 111. changed her mind, told the driver to go to the hospital instead. There she gave birth to a boy, named him Franklin Delano Steele...