Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, is doing practically this, and his people, bewildered but willing, are trying to obey. President Kemal has decided that Turkish shall no longer be written in the delicate intricacies of Arabic script. Instead, he wishes Turks to write Turkish in Latin characters...
...Instead the railway doctor who has just prescribed for Mexico was found in Canada. He is Sir Henry Worth Thornton, since 1922 chairman of the Board and president of the Canadian National Railways. Last week the secret of his recent suspiciously informal visit to Mexico with Canadian railway colleagues was finally revealed...
...Instead he preached ruthless denationalization to Congress, last week, as the keynote of his whole new fiscal policy. Briefly this consists in postponing repayments to foreign creditors of the State, until drastic economies and efficient denationalization of the railways release funds to swell the National Treasury. Señor Montes de Oca declared that the Mexican internal budget is now safely balanced, and was able to state that Mexico's external creditors are still patient...
...Instead of notes, Conductor Stokowski offered his admirers notations which he had made upon music heard in Java. Conductor Stokowski said that he had been entertained by the good Sultan of Djokjakarta in his 15-acre palace at the wedding ceremonies of certain of the children of several of the Sultan's 3,000 wives. At this wedding feast he had heard Javanese "gamalongs" or orchestras which he described...
...Instead of string and wind instruments, the Javanese produce their music with a complex system of gongs, bells and celestas, achieving a cohesion of rhythm beyond the hopes of an occidental orchestra." Different gamalongs, said Stokowski in an awed whisper, played long, complicated programs in different courtyards without leaders and without mistakes. "I tried," said the leader of the Philadelphia Symphony, "to arrange with a Javanese prince to send his entire orchestra of several hundred to Philadelphia . . . they are splendidly barbaric...