Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...which celebrated its centenary in 1936, the walls of the old Prayer Hallare lined with pictures of long-dead maidens in the prescribed uniforms they wore during the war. For those four tragic years, and long afterward, they dressed in exact grey Confederate uniforms, with braided basques, bell skirts instead of breeches, a jaunty forage cap perched upon their curls. . . . But make no mistake; these ingenues' botany textbooks were written in Latin...
Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman. Had Hillman chosen to reply to Lewis with equal bitterness, the fat might have been in the fire. Instead he spoke earnestly and reasonably for unity. Only grudgingly did Lewis shake Hillman's proffered hand after that generous speech...
...Greek mountaineers from their hilltops demoralized an army which had been told that the Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes...
Among the revolutionary features which made Commissioner Lang question the Community Church: its cantilever construction, which made the weight load appear too heavy for the footings and foundations; its heating pipes set in the floor, instead of visible radiators, its steel-&-gunite walls. Such walls have never before been built-they are made of steel props interwoven with flexible laths of steel and paper, on which is sprayed gunite (cement shot from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State...
...squad is just as small in stature as it was last year, but there is some hope that Harvard may have ten capable hoopmen instead of only six or seven to throw into big games this season. The difference between the first and second teams is not great, and Coach Fesler may be able to offset the decided lack of height by shooting fresh men into the game repeatedly...