Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thoroughly inept. There is no effort to control private rice supplies. Minor officials of CNRRA-UNRRA's Chinese extension-are afraid to make decisions. They will watch a village starve and report it back to UNRRA as dramatic evidence of famine and the need for more help, instead of sending the villagers the few sacks of flour that would save them...
...shows up at the track to make sure her "darlings" don't get too much fresh air, or too little. She worries about flies biting them, and orders screens. Her horses once came down with a misery, and Arden ordered them rubbed down with her Ardena skin tonic instead of horse liniment, which, she said, smelled terrible. The trainer told her the stuff was no good for horses. He got fired...
...trade of illustrator, dropped Walter Winchell, took on Odd Mclntyre and jacked circulation from 40,000 to 100,000 within six months. Said conservative Charles Dana Gibson: "Son, you're here for the rest of your life!" The financial crash a few months later made it a year instead of a lifetime...
Delayed by printing difficulties, the Student Council Food Relief Committee ballot on student menu cuts to help alleviate the European food shortage will be conducted tomorrow at noon, instead of this morning as originally planned...
...chivalry is dead, we realize. When, instead of coming to a gallant defense of Harvard's women students, the Harvard Crimson last Tuesday not only turned its back but slung a good right, we were not surprised. However, we are amazed at Billy Rose for the mistake he made. We cannot understand why he did not say "handsome men do not go to college." Not only Radcliffe, 800 strong, but all eastern women's colleges, would support him in that statement. We've come to the conclusion that brawn, beauty and brains is a difficult combination; in fact, the phenomenon...