Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commonwealth's snappy new "bloodmobiles" will roll up outside of Brooks House for two days of vein-tapping. The "bloodmobile" is a specially-constructed vehicle that goes from town to town throughout the year, following the same general principle of the traveling libraries that wander over backwoods areas. Instead of landing books, the "bloodmobile" simply borrows blood, with the understanding that the blood will be returned if the donor needs it is a hurry, and quite possible with interest...
...satisfaction of getting a by-line, however, is something managing editors pass out instead of money," encouraged Walter H. Waggoner of the New York Times Washington Bureau...
...Renault was picked up, with his pockets bulging with dispatches, he talked so fast and furiously that his slow-witted examiner gave up and let him go without even searching him. After his network had been sending out messages for several months, the Gestapo located one of his transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul, can be explained only by their thirst for personal success...
...Steve Davis enter the game as the first substitute instead of Walt McCurdy, who sent the game into overtime with four quick points in the final seconds?. Harper said yesterday that Davis looked immense in practice during the past week and deserved a chance to get into action...
...famous anti-climactical finale Goldovsky had two of his singers draw the curtains behind them as they warned the audience of the effects of sin, thus putting the last film of farce on what should have been a tragedy-on a performance that was petty and cute and exaggerated instead of majestic and underlyingly serious...