Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood-control outlay of perhaps $40,000,000. From these facts Treasury experts predicted that a tax cut surely no greater than $225,000,000, perhaps of only $220,000,000, perhaps of no more than $180,000,000, and perhaps no tax cut at all, would be recommended instead of the $289,000,000 tax cut voted before Christmas by the House, and since delayed by the Senate...
...Accounting Office, cried out: "I am opposed . . . though I stand alone among the 60,000 Government workers in Washington." His points were that the "Welch bill, containing the $300 minimum increase, would benefit the least needy workers the most; that it would keep young married women in Federal jobs, instead of efficient bachelors and spinsters...
...scathing conclusion Baron Cushendun remarked that although "some of the Soviet suggestions would make for a better and brighter world . . . don't let us make the mistake of imagining we can reach the goal more quickly ... by taking wild leaps . . . instead of setting to work with patience and perseverance...
This year a new system will be inaugurated. Instead of having one trial 72 hole match, from the results of which a team will be chosen, there will be played a series of matches...
...situation is one which the football coach does not often encounter. Instead of beseeching his men to keep off pro to stay in college he has to beg them to neglect their work to accomplish the same end. Public spirited members of the faculty are wondering why on earth they gave that football man an A instead of an E. The student body is holding informal parties in the rooms of the erring football men in vain attempts to lower the abominated high grades. Everybody, with three exceptions, is doing his best to remedy the disgraceful situation. Meanwhile the three...