Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know the earth is a large magnet; it is also covered with definite water and air currents; it probably is also radioactive in that radio waves follow definite surface patterns. Instead of the bird inheriting a flight practice from its ancestry, it probably inherits some sort of receiver mechanism which allows it to follow directions for long distances, and over large bodies of water. As a matter of fact the waves it follows may not be radio waves at all but they may be air currents or some other form of wave. All the bird needs is a receiver mechanism...
...Yangtze still held, but the river had set new high water marks, was still rising. At Ichang, a record 100 ft. of water halted all upriver traffic through the famed gorges leading to Chungking; Hankow's suburbs were awash; Kiukiang's busy wharves lay submerged, and sampans instead of rickshas carried passengers through the streets...
...pigtailed, freckled nine-year-old tripped into the Cleveland Press last week and asked to see the editor. Instead of being shooed away, she was led straight to his office. Louis B. Seltzer shook Ruth Harriger by the hand, then gravely read the note she thrust out to him. It was from Ruth's father, an ex-Clevelander now living in New Mexico. He had written her to be sure to call on the Press while visiting in Cleveland. Busy Editor Seltzer dropped everything to take her on a tour of his shop, bought her an ice cream...
Nevertheless, the irony, though irony can never be explicit, is there: though Scobie thinks of himself as a sinner, he never realizes what his real sin is-purblind selfishness, appalling spiritual pride1. His "pity" carries him to such morally insane heights that he pities his fellow men -and women-instead of loving them; he ends by pitying...
Boyd considered using conveyor belts and moving vans, decided instead to rely on raw Princeton manpower. He hired 35 undergraduates for $1 an hour, eight hours a day. For ten weeks, in sunshine or showers, they would push book trucks down a covered ramp, connecting the old and new buildings...