Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prices are sky-high (nearly double prewar), and Perkins has little money for purchases. Last week, when a boatload of animals came in from Singapore, he made a quick round of dealers in Manhattan and Camden, N.J. He especially wanted an orangutan: the $3,500 price tag was prohibitive. Instead he chose a pair of cheetahs ($1,800), a sacred ibis ($65), a patas monkey...
...outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself to kiss the Pope's slipper, but Pius, quicker than he, put out a restraining hand and proffered the papal ring instead. Then the two talked, and tears welled in the old King's eyes...
...Navy says with a straight face that the Neptune is only a peaceful research project. Its specifications give it a warlike look. It will be 45 ft. long-one foot shorter than the German V2, which is now considered obsolescent. It will be slimmer (32 inches in diameter instead of 65) and will weigh about six tons fully loaded, instead of the V-2's 14 tons...
...Western thought has been kept out, Western technology has not. In many large cities, the muezzin no longer troubles to climb his tower to announce prayers. Instead, loudspeakers have been set up in the minarets, and at prayer time the muezzin rasps his La ilaha, ilia Allah over a public-address system...
Tuberculosis fighters are convinced that the absolute weapon against the disease is only a few million dollars off. Dr. Cassius J. Van Slyke, chief of the PHS research grants division, thinks that $6,000,000 a year for research (instead of the present $500,000) would solve the problem within a few years. Says he: one big push would...