Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead of committing himself to a single seat for the entire season, as heretofore, Bingham stated, the booklet-owner will be able to secure seats with whomever he desires, with better results than last year. This procedure will eliminate the necessity of returning tickets and the resulting, haphazard re-distribution...
...lead that the Yankees used to enjoy in the days of Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, but the 1947 Yankees got there by different methods. They no longer specialized in slaughtering the opposition with the home run and the big inning (the National Leaguers were doing that now). Instead, the Yankees relied upon timely hits, an occasional squeeze play, plenty of hit-&-run and lots of finesse in the field...
Nonetheless, as a reward for Wright's "desire to help medical science," Judge McDonald let him off with a light sentence-two to twelve years in the penitentiary (instead of the 40 years to life Wright might have expected to get as a habitual offender...
...independent Foreman's Association of America, whose six-week strike against Ford had hardly put a nick in production. The company stated that it had originally signed an F.A.A. contract-the first in the auto industry-in hopes of making the foremen a more effective part of management. Instead, relations had become so bad that the company now felt that such unions were "unsound in principle...
Text. In Milwaukee, the enterprising Rev. John Lewis failed to get the new church he wanted, instead got one to five years in prison for burning down...