Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...late Monday that modified terms had been agreed upon in Moscow-strangely in the United States Embassy-and that the Finnish delegation was on its way home to win Parliamentary approval. The new demands were said to be considerably easier: Viipuri, Sortavala, and Petsamo would not be taken; and instead of Hanko, Uto (halfway between Hanko and the Aland Islands) would do for a naval base; the Terijoki Government would be abandoned...
Switched back to Colonies, Secretary MacDonald became fascinated by the black, brown, yellow peoples of the British Empire. With relish he discovered that the Empire's cannibals preferred black men instead of white. The whites tasted too salty. All the while he was gaining his superiors' confidence. Gloomily he expressed the fear that the British Empire might disintegrate before the onrush of "extreme nationalism." Prime Minister Chamberlain called that a "very brilliant and statesmanlike exposition...
...years U. S. paint manufacturers have tried to sell homeowners the virtues of paint instead of wallpaper. Their difficulty was that housewives couldn't visualize from a color card what their walls and trim would look like after paint was on. With wallpaper they could take home sample books and see for themselves. To overcome this handicap, Cleveland's big Sherwin-Williams Co. launched an ambitious $250,000 project...
...passion for collecting goldfish bones. From fishbones, Daniel David Palmer turned to human vertebrae and founded the spine-tickling business of chiropractic. Today chiropractic is a $70,000,000-a-year industry, with 20,000 practitioners in 44 States legally manipulating everything from colds to high blood pressure. Instead of the old-fashioned manhandling of "Fish" Palmer, modern chiropractors use a glittering variety of labor-saving devices called by such impressive names as "Neurocalcograph," "Electroencephalomentimpograph," "Neurotempometer...
...would have muttered into their parkas if they had been forced to stay on their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there...