Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...last week seven tons of Duralumin "tractor," driven by a twelve-cylinder automobile engine, chugged into the surf of Guantanamo Bay and set out to sea. Instead of sinking, the Buck Rogersian vehicle paddled to & fro at ten miles an hour, turned, charged the beach and landed a party of U. S. Marines...
...authority of Antonescu broke down completely. The avenging assassins of Jihlava, instead of suffering "severe measures," walked boldly into the ancient Greek Orthodox Church of Ilie Gorgani in Bucharest, through the floodlit, green-draped entrance, past the urns of burning incense on the stone stairway. Before the altar, where 26 uniformed Iron Guard youths stood at attention, they knelt, joined the solemn prayers of the priests over the candlelit caskets of Codreanu and his "martyred" followers...
Both nominees agree on the basic policies of the H.S.U., leaving the election a question of individuals and their abilities instead of issues as has usually been the case...
Formal lectures and examinations have been abandoned and marks are only issued to satisfy University requirements. Instead, student enthusiasm and interest inspire discipline and concentrated labor...
Chiefly, there is the Dramatic Club. Its new schedule of four plays a year instead of two should be a pat on the back to any undergraduate playwright with a burning manuscript in his pocket. And the Student Union Dramatic Club, too, should pop up again this spring with as good a production as their "The Cradle Will Rock" and "Waiting For Lefty" of the last two years...