Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ohio, Oregon. John Garner, never a man to throw good money after bad, last week declined to enter Ohio's May 14 primary, on the ground that the State committee had sewed up the 52 Buckeye delegates for Term III. Instead, he entered Oregon's May 17 primary, seeking...
...juncture with the Swedish rail-road at Tornio, hard by the Swedish iron mines and fort at Boden. To narrow the "waist" of Finland thus traversed (something else Russia's fighting columns failed to do), Russia takes a slice off Finland north and south of Kuolajärvi, instead of ceding a big slice of Russia further down the line as she was willing to do last autumn. In these concessions, Russia thus was insuring herself against future military resistance from the Finns of the kind that proved so costly in the past three months...
...cheaply, the Finns had once again proven their durability and burnished their national honor. They had incidentally made it plain to the Russians that they would be a very troublesome people to govern, and if any net gain had accrued in putting up a game but hopeless fight instead of selling out for bargain rates to begin with, this...
Lesson No. 2 from Finland was the cumbersomeness in rough country of divisions which are over-mechanized and equipped as occupying troops instead of for sheer attack and holding. The elaborate Russian caravans which sought to penetrate Finland's forested southeast corner and central "waist" bogged down of their own weight and complexity on narrow roads. Under the circumstances, the superior mobility of the ten-man Finnish ski patrols actually gave them superiority in effective numbers over the hordes of stalled Russians, a superiority not unlike that of a small wolf pack over a herd of caribou...
...electric razor, but stoutly maintain that his old razor is the only thing that will lick his whiskers. A woman may love to prance giddily to the strains of hot music, but insist that nightclubs bore her, that she would rather curl up with a good book. Instead of going in for statistical questionnaires and surveys. Dr. Dichter talks to people, studies their personalities. He doesn't always believe what they...