Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these hopes were dashed when it was learned that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Church had been chosen (unanimously) as President of the Council for the next four years, as this action seems to make certain that the matter, instead of going from bad to better is going from bad to worse-if that be possible...
Tennis elders did not waste much time shaking their heads over the defeat of William Tatem Tilden II in straight sets in the finals of the Brooklyn Heights indoor invitation tennis tournament last week, his first competition since his reinstatement as an amateur. Instead, all eyes were on his conqueror, John Van Ryn, now definitely a Davis Cup hope. Van Ryn, who ranks sixth in the land, not only defeated No. 1 Tilden but also No. 2 Francis T. Hunter in the course of the week...
...Institute intends no reorganization of the University's present departments. Instead, each department will contribute to the Institute's study of all factors of human behavior and relations. Biologists, psychologists, economists, sociologists will join in the study of applied sciences like law, medicine, psychiatry. The Institute will be directed by the deans of the Graduate, Medical, and Law Schools, one social scientist, one natural scientist...
...meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon, and dinner, no matter what time they are scheduled for. What he consumes instead of meals - a few steak sandwiches with onions, a few dill pickles, and a few apples - cannot be called meals...
Well, he said, he had been working away for two years. Instead of collaborating again with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay he had gone ahead by himself on a libretto, a fantastic tragedy...