Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...
...cold air, rows of bookshelves and murals in all three rooms, will have the prize housing package on the campus. But 300 other student families at Missouri will also live in trailers, parked on an abandoned golf course and two lots. Missouri, bulging with 10,000 students instead of its prewar 6,000, last week postponed the opening of college until enough barracks could be knocked down at Fort Leonard Wood and transplanted 96 miles to the campus...
...Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported reassuringly: 1) commercial penicillin now in use is predominantly of the effective G type instead of the useless K (TIME, May 6); and 2) while new penicillin-resistant varieties of bacteria have been developed in test tubes, they are not yet a problem in practice...
...souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they do it in the U.S. instead of Mexico, which has been solidly Catholic for 400 years...
...found out enough to fill a five-foot bookshelf. There had been a big mistake in the inventory: instead of the advertised $7 million worth of photographic equipment there was only $1.5 million worth. Congestion and bottlenecks were everywhere. Many purchasers went hungry rather than stand for hours in a PX line to buy food. After seven and a half hours of business, only 119 sales had been made, only $27,384.26 worth of merchandise sold...