Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would not interfere with his basketball. "I'll be able to play in all the games, including the Missouri Valley Conference competition," Chip pointed out. "We had planned to leave New York for Kansas City on the 26th of December, anyway, and now I'll just leave from Miami instead...
...worst mistake." As a result, Wallace got up at his now famous press conference during the Progressive Party's Philadelphia convention and implied to the assembled newsmen that they should be ashamed of themselves for not risking their necks to get news as George Polk had done. Hence instead of getting across the point William Polk had wanted emphasized, that Lindley's action was, he believed, motivated by George Polk's relationship with Newsweek, Wallace instead only succeeded in antagonizing a large number of influential reporters...
...That a simple poll be taken either by the House Committees or the Student Council, instead of the proposed detailed questionnaire of the Council. The poll should ask but one question: "Do you consider that the Dining Halls are giving you your money's worth...
...Under a Treasury ruling for non-professional writers, Eisenhower's profits on the book, reported to be over $500,000, will be taxed as capital gains (25%) instead of as personal income, thus practically doubling his earnings on it. Though it is not generally known, he accepts no salary as president of Columbia University. As a five-star general he is technically still on active duty, with total Army pay and allowances of $15,744 a year...
...Fangio cracked up on the next leg, killing his mechanic.) One Buenos Aires paper, cheering Oscar on, ran a headline: CAN ANYTHING STOP HIM? The foggy, mountainous road between Cúcuta and Valera couldn't. At times, he could not see two yards ahead - and going straight instead of following a sudden turn meant plunging over a cliff. At Valera, Oscar had a commanding 2½-hour lead over his brother, who had a comfortable lead over the third man. Then the Galvez brothers' luck...