Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help support his mother, he took his first and only parish, in a dingy district of Detroit. Niebuhr had intended to stay a couple of years. Instead, he stayed 13. His congregation on the first Sunday consisted of 18 souls. To eke out his salary ($50 a month), Niebuhr began writing, and out of necessity discovered his vocation...
Coal & Chicks. If there was, tough old John C. Kehoe wasn't saying. Son of a coal miner, he picked slate in Pennsylvania's hard-coal country for 45^ a day. As a boy, instead of shooting marbles, he was fighting game chicks-against other kids in Pittston, Pa. He became the hard-fisted political boss of Luzerne County and owner of half a dozen coal mines, but never gave up cockfighting. The big difference between Kehoe and the 150,000 other people who fight roosters in the U.S. is that he crows about...
...Promoter Sol Strauss won a victory of sorts. Jersey Joe Walcott reluctantly signed on Sol's terms (20% of the net gate, radio and television returns, 22½% of the movie rights) instead of his own (30%) for a return bout with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium on June...
Blown Good. In 1926 things looked dark again; Benguet's ore was running low. The other stockholders wanted to dissolve the company and split up the $750,000 on hand. Instead, John Haussermann stubbornly insisted on spending some of the cash on prospecting. He won the gamble; a rich new strike put him in a position to buy a lumber company, a power station, and a $300,000 controlling interest in the Balatoc Mining Corp...
...most miserable time began. He was forced to return to Gardiner because his father had died; the family funds were lost in the financial panic of that year. Yet none of these matters were discussed in his letters to Smith. He continued to write, instead, about Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold and Nathaniel Hawthorne. During these dreary years he was writing many of the poems that were later hailed as his masterpieces (Luke Haver gal, Richard Cory) and finding that he could place few of them in any magazine in the country. He kept his defeats to himself, letting them...