Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hayes-Bickford...8 instead of 10 ounces of milk...
Miracle of Healing. Saint Frances Xavier's best known miracle occurred in March 1921. A nurse at the Cabrini-founded Columbus Hospital in Manhattan accidentally washed out the eyes of an infant named Peter Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors...
...that had kept so many hogs on the farm, and so much corn going into them in the last year or so, was done for. Cash corn soared from $1.46½ to $2.25 a bu. at Chicago, far too high to make it profitable to feed it to hogs. Instead, it came off the farms (1,000,000 bushels...
...politics. He is now being tried before a union tribunal on charges of Communism. Nevertheless, his quickie victory had greatly increased his prestige. Not since Racketeer Willie Bioff had any labor boss been able to dictate to the studios. The way he was going, using union unity instead of extortion, Sorrell might...
...young and promising writer of stories, Gorky went to call on the great novelist, later spent some time near Tolstoy's home in the Crimea. Perhaps he had expected to find a dull old vegetarian disguised in a peasant's smock and spouting platitudes. He found instead a henpecked, shriveled, electrifying man with "shaggy" eyebrows, "wonderful" hands, a passion for card games, a "shocking" coarseness of speech...