Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Congress last week gave up all idea of going home for the summer. Instead, it decided to take brief recesses during the weeks when the political conventions met in Philadelphia and Chicago...
...bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...
...dollars or so apiece. Eye doctors . . . would be contacted, and on payment, in addition to an exorbitant membership fee, of $300 for the patients, the client would be supplied with the ten cataract cases. . . . Many doctors . . . made a fair living over a period of years by selling their patients . . . instead of treating them. ... In America the young surgeon would spend several years in a clinic before he could get his hands on ten cataract operations; in Vienna six weeks of time and a few hundred dollars accomplished the same results...
...eligible to play with the Seniors (two rounds instead of four), one must be 55 or over. Last week, when the field's first half had turned in their cards, tied at 156 were 65-year-old onetime Champion Douglas and 59-year-old Archibald M. Brown, classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt at Groton and Harvard. Mr. Douglas' first-round 73 (eight strokes better than Sam Snead's last-round score in the U. S. Open fortnight ago) equaled the lowest score ever recorded in 35 years of Senior competition...
...munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships and fortresses, they should take to dropping them upon de luxe hotels...