Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is in a name? Everything, it would appear, when TIME [Nov. 24] refers to the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their merit wilted thereby? Is the Christ at Emmaus any less beautiful, because the authorship is changed...
...glorious opportunity," suddenly reverted to his old America-Firstism. One day he rose up cherry-red with anger and cried: "There are times when one must be cruel to be kind. . . . The more you give people, the more they will curse you for not giving them more. Instead of bleeding ourselves white, we had better keep ourselves strong...
...American Red Cross, concerned over food conservation, advised housewives to stop using old cheese to bait mousetraps. Sprinkle it in the soup or pop it in the biscuits, instead, it advised...
Science's sharpest eye is the electron microscope. It sees with a fine-grained beam of electrons instead of coarse-grained light. Last week the Electron Microscope Society of America met in Philadelphia to talk about a few little things they had seen...
...Shih got a ducking. To memorialize the immersion, a soaking compatriot composed a poem in literary Chinese. Its mannered, delicate style seemed so ill-suited to the topic that young Hu dashed off some lustier lines of his own. They were written in Pai Hua (the living speech) instead of Wen Li (the literary language), and they were good. Until Hu did it, no one believed that serious literature could be made from, Pai Hua, as Dante had from Italian...