Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform is ambiguous as to whether the Party favors a "protective tariff," called "Safeguarding" in England. However Leader MacDonald, a staunch Free Trader, warned that even if some form of protection should have to be adopted he would by no means favor a tariff ("safeguarding") but instead would place an absolute embargo on too-cheap, too-competitive foreign goods...
Perjury should be made a misdemeanor instead of a felony to insure more convictions...
...opening of the Sunday Evening Club Season. Dr. Henry Van Dyke was a new presence to many who remembered his radio talk of a week be fore, wherein he flayed intolerance. His unequivocal pronouncements led many to think of him as an ox-boned fullback with a brain. Instead they saw a bristling little man, no taller than many a grammar schoolchild. Similar surprises, some dis appointments will occur every Sunday night during the season...
...look forward to the longer future with confidence, but the great rewards of business and banking during the next decade will probably go to the plodders rather than to the plotters, to the calculators instead of to the speculators, to the thrifty and not to the shifty...
That the 1931 Freshman Jubilee Committee lost only $360, instead of the $600 loss attributed to it, has been recently announced...