Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Government. To attract crowds he hired "The Great Chandu," a magician. A Chandu come-on: to tear up a picture of a bass, unfold the torn bits to exhibit an intact picture of a bigger bass, and announce: "If you like this trick, vote for Bedel instead of the fish...
...immediate military gains offered by successful seizure of Norway must have looked considerable to Herr Hitler: air bases only an hour (instead of two) from Great Britain's naval bases and shipyards; windows on the Atlantic for his "living room," now stifling behind the Allied blockade; control of Sweden and her high-grade iron ore, which Hitler's war machine must have; demonstration to Benito Mussolini of the supremacy of air power over sea power. Above all, there was the gain of seizing the initiative, re-asserting the Reich's dynamism. A magnificent demonstration of Might upon...
...Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March 1939 he proposed to land in Reykjavik with a large delegation of Germans who would conduct genealogical research all over the kingdom to establish the "Viking ancestry" of prominent Nazis. It was just luck for Iceland that Adolf Hitler took Bohemia-Moravia instead, and Genealogist Himmler canceled his Reykjavik appointment to rush to Prague...
During the past two years the Japanese have bought up large real-estate holdings in order to control more votes. Three weeks ago they announced they would run five instead of the usual two Japanese candidates. They hoped to marshal enough votes to oust three British Councilmen, elect the three extra Japanese. If they could get them elected, and then coerce the five Chinese Councilmen, Japan could put the final squeeze on foreign business in China...
...record is the more remarkable in that Evans tackled Shakespeare the hard way. Instead of giving audiences the usual chestnuts, he chose Henry IV, Part I, which (except for a one-week Players revival) had not been produced on Broadway for 44 years; Richard II, which had not been produced on Broadway for 60; and an uncut Hamlet which had never been produced on Broadway...