Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fowl is covered with fur, which is very similar to that of a hare, and it eats grain, vegetables and grass. It is especially fond of alfalfa. The eggs that the female fur-fowl lays are soft-shelled like the eggs of a turtle or a snake, but, instead of being round or elliptical in shape, the fur-fowl eggs are hexahedral...
Laborite C. N. Shawcross was more specific. Said he: British automakers, "intending to go back to 1939 instead of going ahead to 1950," have done little to improve methods used before the war, when the U.S., with only twice as many workers, turned out 15 times as many cars. Compared with more powerful, lower-priced U.S. models, said Member Shawcross, the smallest current British model is "a joke, a glorified, expensive...
...Instead, he was returned to Washington, subsequently sent to India and China. India, which he had never visited before, inspires some of the most nearly apoplectic, most polysyllabic (and shrewd) passages in the book. The "impermeable autochthonic self-responsive misery" of the Indians depressed him almost as much as "neo-Fascism" had in Italy, though for entirely different reasons. Sheean regards Britain's stay in India as a "silly impertinence," but says that India's major problem is the Indians themselves...
According to an information pamphlet issued by the Counsellor, "Requirements for admission have been made more elastic, not to relax standards, but to clear away unnecessary red tape which might work against men who have been fighting instead of studying." The object of this action, said the bulletin, is the University determination to keep education in Cambridge open to qualified men on the most flexible basis possible and to provide--to all veterans who apply disinterested and purposeful advice...
...bogey of the returning men's difficulties of readjustment to college life have here proved little more than a myth. Advance representatives, who re-entered Harvard in the fall, have held high the scholastic standard of the veteran. They have not sought nor wanted pampering. Instead, they have turned back the spotlight of attention to the University and its own readjustment problems...