Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When you get "fired" as a civilian, or "quit," you are free to go your way, but not so in the Army. Instead, you get transferred to some disagreeable job, such as mess officer, or permanent kitchen police (if enlisted man). It's a courageous man who "quits" his job in the Army, or incurs the wrath of the brass and gets "fired." The consequences are unpleasant...
...wheat, meat and fats off the farms and moving in all directions overseas. The President's Cabinet subcommittee (State, Agriculture and Commerce) wanted a dark bread order, and controls on wheat and flour. The State Department wanted to raise the price of grain, luring farmers into selling it instead of feeding it to hogs and cattle. Secretary Anderson agreed, but Price Boss Chester Bowles paled at the thought of a general price rise. Honest differences of opinion seriously hobbled action. Said ex-UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman: the Administration had "failed to do everything it could," had "gambled" with...
...made OPA a national whipping boy. The dilemma was twice dramatized last week. In Manhattan, veterans unable to get shirts marched naked-to-the-waist into the OPA office. In Chicago, a young waitress, shamelessly overcharged for a shameful room, had to run to the Administration-hating Tribune, instead of to the OPA, for a hearing (see Housing...
Anxiety on the part of Engineering Sciences concentrators was the result of a cursory glance at the new catalogue, which lists only 3 undergraduate courses in "Applied Science" instead of the 13 or 14 as in former years. Dropped from the list are such classes as Engin...
...which it is possible. This increased number of men per room will add substantially to the University's rental income even if the basic rent level remained unchanged. This is to say nothing of the fact that the University will be receiving rent for three terms a year instead...