Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country's biennial anachronism, another "lame duck" Congress, prepared to sit in Washington. In the Senate, the anachronism was particularly visible. Instead of the clear Republican majority elected by the people in November, the Senate will function until March with Republicans and Democrats almost even in power, with the balance resting on insurgent Republicans and Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite dentist, Senator Shipstead...
...Instead, as the sword of death hung like that of Damocles, last week, all Englishmen faced the future with the same confident thought: "Long live our King...
...York, to stand for one of the Senatorial seats from that state as a Republican. When the Republican candidate was elected President of the U. S., casual Britons supposed that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador-and so a banquet really had to be arranged. By some Briton's happy thought the banquet was tendered to Alanson Bigelow Houghton by the London Newsvendors Benevolent Association...
...Franz Schubert died. He was one of 14 children of a schoolmaster and a cook. He himself had tried to be a schoolmaster but teaching tormented him and instead he scribbled music. When he died, at 31, he left some 600 songs, 6 masses, 2 sacred cantatas, 24 piano sonatas, 20 string quartets, 18 dramatic works, 10 symphonies and personal effects valued at $10. Last week, under the leadership of the Columbia Phonograph Co., Europe and the U.S. celebrated the Centennial of his death...
Brilliant and useful is Dr. Bergius' feat. Brilliant and useful too is another U. S. method of making artificial coal. Instead of throwing away the thick refuse oil left in refinery stills, it is heated in tubes several thousand feet long. This heating produces some vaporized, oil. The residue cools into shapeless blocks of bituminous coal, which can be processed just like natural soft coal...