Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Several factors account for this difference: i) The Lockheed P-38 is a much bigger (11,171 lb. unloaded, compared to the Hurricane's 4,670 lb.) and faster (404 m.p.h. to 335 m.p.h.) plane; 2) it has two Allison engines instead of the Hurricane's single, less expensive Rolls Royce Merlin; 3) it has not yet gone into mass production; 4) in Britain the average weekly wage for aircraft workers is about $20, in the U. S. about...
...sums up two Britains, both of which are in the present war up to the hilt: the Britain of military aristocracy and that of the people who, like Churchill, have difficulty pronouncing a letter-theirs is h. He could, if he wanted, wear his old school (Harrow) tie; instead he wears a cocky, defiant bow. He is a Tory, an imperialist, and has been a strikebreaker and Red-baiter; and yet, when he tours the gutted slums of London, old women say: "God bless you, Winnie...
...Proportional representation tends to bring in men who represent city-wide interests" instead of party wheel-horses, Dean Landis indicated. Under the proposed system, the principal groups in a city are represented according to their numbers...
...would, I believe, be helpful, also, to publish a complete list of the officers, instead of the abbreviated list in your story, so that any who are interested in the organization may know to whom to address themselves. The list follows...
...Instead of a Freshman issue that savors of lazy Pacific beaches, the Advocate has passed out at registration a magazine of short stories for the most part, but with three poems and a useful bit of prose, that is averagely high quality, yet lacks anything top-notch...