Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...their districts, saying: "There'll be a hell of a racket tonight, but don't worry, it's something our boys are putting up." When the enemy came over, the noise broke out, like dozens of summer storms. It was Tim Pile's new tactic. Instead of trying to hold enemy planes in the long fingers of searchlights and aiming at them, AA defenses set up a box barrage, all the guns firing at the same time into the darkness according to prescribed directions, forming a curtain of flying shrapnel. Splinters clattered like hail over...
Theatres were closed and cinemas shut at 9. Lights were off in many parts of London. Many places were without fuel. Food was served to the homeless by many volunteer organizations and nobody starved. The power plant of an East End meatpacking factory was bombed. Instead of letting five tons of meat spoil, the manager dumped it in a caldron, added vegetables, served stew to bombees. But an increasing number of London's poor had no shelter but bomb shelters...
...college athlete, especially an old footballer. To Manhattan's Dean Hill (Georgia Tech '12), football is the old-time religion. He helped found New York's Touchdown Club to foster good-fellowship among Varsity lettermen, takes flying tackles at journalists who refer to an "All-American" instead of an "All-America" footballer. For 13 years Dean Hill has rummaged through old bookstores and trunks, clipped yellowed papers and magazines, assembled one of the world's finest collections of footballiana...
...whose index of new orders received went up to 162.2 in July from 156.9 in normally more active June; 3) the export market, mainly the United Kingdom, which rose 14.6% in July to 707,809 tons, 14.2% of the month's production; 4) consumer industries (automobiles, refrigerators) which, instead of being elbowed aside by the defense boom, are so far being carried along with...
That is the familiar picture, but it fails of the truth, this year especially. The tables are turned now, and it is the Seniors instead who are wondering uncertainly about their future. But on this September morning, this registration day, we are not going to discuss the things Seniors are worrying about. There will be much talk of them later on. Today, this weekend, the College is mainly concerned with you Freshmen, and your relatively easy problem of adjustment. You are welcome at Harvard, and after a short time you will feel at home here. It won't take...