Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advanced for organized scouting. But the danger of non-scouting as a breeder of suspicion and distrust is sufficient to justify its abandonment. Like so many other reforms, conceived with the best of intentions and carried out sincerely, non-scouting has failed to work. Some would cite prohibition, which instead of removing the evils it aimed at, has brought forth a new set of evils, rendered doubly had because they are under cover. Others might cite the suppression of allegedly improper books, which had they been left alone would have died their natural death quickly, but once advertised as improper...
...Reverend John Roach Straton D. D. of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York City, noted fundamentalist and exponent of divine healing, will debate at the Union next Tuesday instead of Warden L. E. Lawes of Sing Sing Prison, as previously announced...
...next speaker in the Phillips Brooks House course in Religion, announced on the schedule as Professor W.B. Donham '98, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, will be instead Professor J.A. de Haas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships in the Business School, it has been announced...
Unofficialdom said that Army's flood control report would recommend: 1) Standard levees from above Cairo, Ill., to the Mississippi mouth, 12 feet wide (instead of 8, as now) and higher than ever; 2) Illuminated national highways atop these levees; 3) Spillways at Poydras, La.; and down the Atchafalaya Basin; 4) Lateral levee control of large Mississippi tributaries; 5) No reforestation; 6) Costs...
...arteries come to the surface above the knee. This eventuates a cramped sensation. As remedy, the Sikes Chair Co. of Philadelphia has provided a posture chair. Since 1922 experiments had been conducted with the result that in 1927 came the "Perfect Posture Chair," the seat being shallower (13 in. instead of the usual 18 in.) and slightly tilted back-so that the sitter is forced to use the entire seat thus getting the benefit of back rest. Also, the chair is rounded in front so that arteries are not pinched. From March to June (1927) 6,000 "posture chairs" were...