Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were, as students of government weather reports know,* light snows last winter, early thaws last spring, winds carrying water vapor away from the coasts instead of inland...
...Flying. When the seventh plane within a month landed and tore up their golf course, members of the Old Westbury Golf Club next to Roosevelt Field, L. I., became actively vexed. They refused to let the plane take off, until they learned that it belonged to Curtiss Flying Service instead of to Roosevelt Flying Corp., the unintentional depredations of whose flyers induced the Old Westbury players to start building a 103-ft. barrier around their grounds (TIME, July...
Angry depositors, just told by the receiver that they might eventually receive 20? instead of 5? or 10? on the dollar, added four more items to the sum of what happens to bad bankers. Each item was an egg thrown at the three manacled convicts on their way to jail. One egg smashed on James Rae Clarke's straw...
...number of musicians so ousted numbers only 7,000, instead of the 35,000 estimated earlier. Diminishing receipts have impelled several theatres to re-engage their orchestras. The Federation of Musicians is fighting its battle by a propaganda campaign to persuade the public that "canned" orchestras are never as clear, never as rich as orchestras "in person," that for Music's sweet sake no mechanical device should be permitted to intervene between ear and instrument...
Starting with the next (September) issue, The Mentor will no longer have a theme-subject. Instead there will be articles on many a different topic, by such authors as Walter Davenport, W. E. Woodward, Margaret Widdemer, Will Durant. There will be seven four-color pages in place of rotogravure; a cover in the "modern manner"; a history of tennis by William Tatem Tilden, 2nd; a history of dog fashions by Albert Payson Terhune...