Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens. Kansas City, Mo., is the larger and more potent of the twins through no geographical advantage, but because of its citizens. They got out and hustled in the '60s to bring the railroad bridge across the Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built...
...improvements suggested by experimental educators, none seems more horrible than the system devised by Mr. Holt, President of Rollins College in Florida, and described by him in the Yale News. In his charge that the present system is deplorable because "it quizzes the student instead of the professor, and makes the faculty mere receptacle." President Holt may be justified. But it's tenitive is a bolus hard to ewallow. At Rollins the student has an eight hour working day, and Is made to live up to it." In four two-hour periods under the galdance of an instructor he studies...
...Clementine Miller, Columbus, Ind.; and Mrs. Charles Deere Wiman, Moline, Ill. Among practicing British actresses indignation was intense, last week, at the presentation of Monologuist Draper. Was she any the less an "actress," they stormed, because during her recitals she assumes successively all the roles of an entire cast instead of confining herself to one? Somebody ought to speak to the Lord Chamberlain! Shameful that he should let the bars down in favor of an American. Probably some relation to Coolidge. Fiddlers in his family, too, My Dear! Courtiers smiled away such absurdities. They recalled that Edward of Wales attended...
...Orient. Also, it makes it apparent that Dr. Jones loves and understands the natives of India as well as he loves and understands Christ. It explains his refusal of the high post to which he had been elected. The Methodists did not choose another bishop in his place. Instead they elected the Rev. Edwin F. Lee of Singapore, to be missionary bishop to the Malaya provinces, a position hitherto held by one of the regular bishops of the church. For the rest in the last week of their session, the Methodists refused to abolish life tenure of bishops;* went...
Well, my career in the cinema went right over people's heads and became a financial failure. So I decided to become literary instead, and spent a lot of time in the ris-kay literary invirament of the Algonquin. So my gentleman friend said that I seem to be full of nothing so much as cute ideas, and the ones that are the most amuseing to the reading public are about my un-mental friend Dorothy. Because I use Psychology and understand that there are some people in the world who cannot help it if thier instincks are unnatural...