Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probability for two identical bridge deals to occur in 18 deals, as described in your Nov. 12 issue, is grossly in error. . . . The chance for the event to occur as described is one in 350,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 instead of one in the unit 85 with 54 zeros...
...unbroken desert sand, or the mineral coldness of Alpine peaks; but he feels at home only in cities. . . . He doesn't like raw vegetables or milk fresh from the cow or oysters on the half shell, but only cooked foods; and he always asks for preserved fruit instead of the natural product...
Among some of the medical aids, which Orthopedist Splithoff says should be tried only with a doctor's advice: a corset-belt to fit the lower back; special shoes for flat feet-a common cause of back troubles; massages and home exercises; a horsehair mattress instead of an innerspring mattress; radiant heat, possibly an old-fashioned electric toaster; a fat-reducing diet; plenty of sleep...
Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...
...paint the way he feels, Burchfield has tried hard to remember the country around Salem, Ohio, where he was raised-instead of the bleak surroundings of suburban Buffalo, where he now lives. His house was on the edge of Salem, and the edge of the woods. When he was eight, Burchfield knew how to tell trees apart, and how to people their shadows with figures he had read about in fairy tales. Four years at the Cleveland School of Art and a job with an automobile-parts company were not enough to change him. His first important paintings...