Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge was that the liquor, instead of proceeding normally through bootleg channels into the U. S., was being sneaked back into Canada to compete illegally with Government-operated stores...
...Prohibitionists nominated a man named William F. Varney, of Rockville Center, N. Y., for President of the U. S., but reserved the right to shift to Herbert C. Hoover instead of Mr. Varney should Mr. Hoover care to state specifically that .5% is as strong as he thinks liquor should ever be permitted to be in the U. S. A man named James A. Edgerton, of Alexandria, Va., was nominated for Vice President...
June 25: Pilgrim Nobile, safe on his base ship, explains why the captain of a ship may, under certain conditions, allow himself to be the first, instead of the last, to enjoy rescue...
...list of useless, though amusing, gifts for men, particularly if they are inclined to do a very little friendly betting, a gold piece the exact size and gold content of a $20 gold currency piece, even to being milled around the edge. Instead of the insignia, however, there appears enameled on one side the word 'Head' and on the other 'Tail...
...father's high opinion of Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell the uprising of laborers. But the insensate miners greeted the representative of their inexorable master with knives and firebrands, and when Dianella heard that Aurelio (and a lady-friend) had been gashed and burned alive she went...