Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sail for Tientsin with the 15th U. S. Infantry. Said the call: "Applicants . . . will face the most severe enlistment requirements the Army has ever set up. . . . Ex-service men must have been discharged with excellent character to be eligible. Volunteers without prior service must be at least 25 instead of the usual 18 years and of unusually fine character and physique...
...however, the city fathers of Manhattan voted to make Park Avenue longer by smoothing the cobbles in front of the Vanderbilt Hotel and rechristening two blocks of lowly Fourth Avenue. Park Avenue thus began at 32nd Street instead of at 34th Street, and because counting begins at "one," the city fathers told Mrs. Bacon that her number must now be "five...
...more freely, having escaped the blushful consequences of its own temerity by a road which did not contravene Wisconsin's broad avenue of free speech. In their excitement, however, the students quite missed Dr. Frank's subtler point and announced that the cancellation was on "moral" grounds instead of the less debatable ground of good taste...