Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undergraduate Houses will admit 173 men at mid-year graduation instead of the originally announced 75, Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37 disclosed yesterday, as this term's House members signified overwhelming preference to retain the current loaded enrollments rather than "deconvert" back to 1946 levels...
...Instead, Tuesday's article devoted itself to an analysis of Yale's traditions, present status, and "democratic spirit...
...survey of the scope of anti-semitism will not be a revelation to most people, and a survey as methodical as this picture cannot hope to contain thrills and excitement. Instead it works up an almost morbid eagerness to find out what new civilized horror is coming next. Sympathetic characters turn out to have subconscious prejudices, and each unkind word strikes a new blow at the hero. As usual there is a love story in the middle, and very soon even it becomes entangled with anti-semitism...
...Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
...dealer sold for $1,500 was actually worth $2,300 on a "used" car lot a block away. But many an industry did not charge as little as its prospect of profits would have allowed. Nor did some industries, notably textiles and shoes, reduce prices when sales slipped. Instead, they preferred to close some plants or curtail production to keep prices...