Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This revolutionary plan did little to cure the law situation as new students averaged only about nine a year during the next decade. Just when the Corporation was wishing that it had gone into the anatomy business instead, it managed to secure the resignations of Parker and Stearns, got Nathan Dane, a leading Federalist politician, to give $10,000 for a Dane Professorship for Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, and hired John Hooker Ashmun to serve as a full-time Royall Professor...
Chicagoans read a new kind of newspaper last week. The strike of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union had forced Chicago's six daily papers to print by photo-engraved typewriting instead of type. The papers had simply bypassed the typesetting process...
...newspaper offices and mistakes in the papers. "Making a correction is such an involved process," said one editor, "that we don't do it unless it's libel." But the publishers were chipper enough to think they would win their fight for a signed contract, instead of the unilateral conditions of employment - and closed shop -the I.T.U. had tried to impose...
Long ago, when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear...
...should be loyal to his father and mother, to his brothers and sisters, to his friends, to his town or village, to his province, to his country; and a person should do nothing for a bribe, even if it takes the form of a promise that he should live instead...