Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...paring customers' corns. They usually charged 25? an operation, raised howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
...Philadelphia, Mrs. Ellwood J. Turner, a Daughter of Colonial Wars, denounced the books because they "tried to give the child an unbiased viewpoint instead of teaching him real Americanism...
Taking advantage of the Sherman Act's "vagueness" (favorite corporation lawyer's complaint), Arnold installed his own definition of trade restraints, his own prosecuting technique. Instead of busting merely big corporations, he went after all industrial situations where he smelt a fishy price. Usually he brings criminal rather than civil actions. If his victims reform their ways thoroughly enough, Arnold then sometimes signs with them a consent decree, nol-pros the criminal action. High-minded businessmen like General Motors' Alfred Sloan (who fought a criminal suit in court rather than sign away G. M.'s profitable...
...political reasons driving us to war, if to war we go, the foremost consideration will be, for many, the belief that this is a struggle to continue civilization and humanistic values. For us to begin that struggle by scuttling the chance for a liberal-arts education, and by pursuing instead a "tonight he merry" philosophy, is to denominate ourselves cowards and fools. There is a tomorrow...
...dreamed of a world-wide brotherhood with the background of a common race and creed, consecrated to the service of peace: Britain enriching the rest out of her culture and traditions. . . . I saw in the Empire a means of giving to the congested masses at home open country instead of a blind alley. . . . Our creed was not based on antagonism to any other people. It was humanitarian and international; we believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world. . . . The 'white man's burden' is now an almost meaningless phrase; then it involved...