Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lodge living room, our here holds up his glass of Canadian beer C'a little habit I picked up while taking in Tremblant with Tony Matt and the boys") and asks suavely, "What I want to know is how can I get down the Headwall at Washington with one instead of the usual two turns?" But never worry, the Mexican athlete in always leaving in the morning
This distinction between the "Marshall Proposal" and the E.R.P. has recently been noticed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan. The Harvard Committee for Wallace supports, and has supported, the Marshall Proposal, but feels compelled to oppose the European Recovery Plan. The E.R.P., instead of carrying out the original suggestion, rather, effectively distorts it into an extension of the Truman Doctrine, (which has tended to confuse Fascism with Democracy.) We advocate, as does the Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, economic reconstruction through the U. N. with no political strings attached. Up to this point...
...York, which is full of big private schools like Columbia and N.Y.U. but has no state university, picked a 30-man commission to decide whether it needed one. Last week the commission (chairman: Owen D. Young) recommended that New York instead set up a chain of community colleges, able to handle 30,000 four-year students and 80,000 two-year students by 1960. One advantage in scattering colleges : more students will be able to go to college cheaply, by living at home...
They also lopped $800,000 from the estimated construction costs by persuading the City Council to permit the use of lightweight vermiculite instead of concrete to sheathe the steel girders against fire. This saved so much weight that they were able to use lighter girders, eliminated 1,200 tons of steel. Another big office-building job, Prudential Insurance Co. of America's $8,500,000 building, will be the lightest building (per square foot) in Los Angeles...
Leverett Saltonstall's Alumni War Memorial Committee threw the memorial debate into a new phase yesterday afternoon with a surprise decision to put aside its three previously announced alternatives and to investigate instead a new proposal combining elements of several suggested plans...