Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...virtually no slaves rose up. Instead Col. Robert E. Lee, then of the U. S. Army, marched up and recaptured the arsenal. Invested to the last with the dignity of intense conviction, John Brown was hanged in a hollow square of 1,500 infantry. His gallows-words were: "I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose...
...York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...
...this device, a farmer must first attach a plow to his tractor and cut a furrow around the outer rim of his field, making the corners rounded instead of square. Then he fastens Mr. Zybach's invention to the steering wheel of the tractor, putting the spoon-end in the furrow. He starts the tractor, climbs out. The tractor, guided along the furrow by Mr. Zybach's invention, continues to make shorter and shorter trips around the field, until it comes to a stop in the middle...
...current century, "Dick" Halliburton romped through Princeton University more bareheaded than most, running cross-country, editing a pictorial magazine, taking astonishing vacations, by the age of 21. Then he romped around the world in tramp ship forecastles, called it The Royal Road to Romance, said he was "living poetry instead of writing it." He talks volubly, cracks many jokes, threatens to write a novel called Hell...
...obviate this he proposes quarterly meetings for the entire assemblage and also monthly meetings for Boston members, the latter covering the details and routine. This and an enlargement of the Board by the addition to each class of Overseers of two appointed members, making the total forty-two instead of thirty, would allow for increase in the national representation, without decreasing the efficiency of the organization...