Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shadow of "resentment," was the seance held by the Committee next day in a ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before the Senators arrived, there strode into the room a figure in blue serge and buttoned shoes, carrying a tan topcoat. The figure wore an almost white fedora hat instead of its traditional brown derby that was instantly recognizable, by the flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with...
...chief effects of the final changes were two: 1) to limit the life of the new Flood Control Board, by referring to the Mississippi River Commission instead of to the Board the proposed survey of the river's tributaries, a task which will take many years; 2) to lessen the Government's liability for damages and expenses by specifying that damage claims are not retroactive and providing that the U. S. need not buy flowage rights over lands which the river now floods naturally. The face cost of the bill remained...
That feat, which inscrutable "Boss" Irigoyen accomplished without making a single campaign speech, might well attract U. S. attention. Instead, last week, while the final Argentine ballots were being counted, eager U. S. citizens were snapping up in best selling quantities a book called The Road to Buenos Ayres.* The snappers neither knew nor cared about Argentina's President-Elect; but they eagerly scanned the new best seller because it tells how exceedingly women of the class called "White Slaves" flourish in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina...
...nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom. The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed...
...make a cinema of life at Yale. Wells Root, able scribe, Yale graduate of 1922, wrote the story. The co-operation of Yale University was sought. Yale officials, however, exhibited coolness. So last week Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. planned to shoot the film in California, to use instead of Yale the name of a fictitious institution of learning...