Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line is not particularly huge, with the top lineman weighing but 225, and the second but 215. The Big Red instead has a fast line and especially a fast offensive line to go with their greyhound backs...
...becomes great only by playing opponents which force it to exploit all its resources. Cornell's schedule shows no very tough games, except perhaps against Pennsylvania, now that both Army and Navy are off the list, which leaves the team in the tragic position of being merely very good instead of great...
...King Peter of Yugoslavia, who stayed there when he came to speak at the Business School last spring, and Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was in Cambridge for a short time this summer. President Conant also stays there occasionally in one room he particularly likes-because it has a shower instead of a bath...
...chuke job. The costumes and get are extravagantly eighteenth century, and appearing prominently in gold braid and squashed top-hat is the late W. C. Fields via Jerry Kilty as Sir Tobey Belch. In this Kilty has resisted the case of playing another Falstaff, which he does well, and instead successfully innovates a double impersonation...
Night, sailing was no better. The Dutch are great ones for fishing instead of earning on honest living, and every evening they get out of bed, yawn, and set out for a night with the nets. We found they were very economical fishermen to boot. When a Dutch fisher man reaches his favorite fish hole, he generally shinnies up the mast and blows out all his riding lights to save kerosene. This means that at any moment the erstwhile yachtsman is prone to destroy the means of a fisherman's livelihood with a sharp blow below the waterline...