Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last year, P.B.H. will hold get-together Radcliffe-Harvard teas, except that now there will be three instead of two, those to be held September 30, October 2, and 4. At these it is hoped to provide Freshmen of both colleges an opportunity to establish lasting friendships...
Just because there are four stars instead of two, don't expect them to do anything out of the ordinary. Hedy Lamarr gets the worst of it, appearing late in the picture, and leaving early after a few appearances, looking just fine but not saying much. The other three do what they have to do very pleasantly, falling in love with the proper intensity, and getting awfully mad now and then. That's the way those oil people were, maybe...
Likeliest deal shaping up was that Administration leaders would kill the waiting period in return for giving the House 1) its age limit, or 2) its version of industrial conscription instead of the Overton-Russell amendment (leasing instead of condemnation...
...Regent Horthy on a white charger, were slowly moving into Transylvania. Tens of thousands of Rumanian peasants were being shunted to new homes. They and their chickens and ducks overflowed Rumanian railway cars so tightly jammed that most of the human and animal freight got in & out of windows instead of doors. Small bands of Rumanian soldiers and petty officers announced they would resist the Hungarians by waging guerrilla warfare in the Carpathians, but none of these bands caused the occupying Hungarian forces much trouble...
...before Cárdenas leaves office in December. Almazánista leaders were hurriedly subpoenaed, ordered to appear before the First District Criminal Court of Mexico City on charges of sedition and "criminal provocation." The Almazánistas countered by preparing written declarations to be presented at the hearings instead. Outsmarted, the Camacho headquarters hastily resumed its former position, declaring: "The Almazánistas may call the people to rebellion until doomsday without receiving any answer...