Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduction of $5.3 billion (some $300 million more than Vinson had suggested). It also extended to all levels the relief which the Treasury plan would have concentrated mainly in the lower brackets. The committee also rejected Vinson's proposal for repeal of the excess-profits tax on corporations. Instead it substituted a cut from 85½% to 60% and a promise of total repeal...
...wasted time asking them to take the witness stand), their children looked at comic books or played with blocks just down the hall. Children were still the real victims. Thousands of them would learn to accept the impermanence of their parents' marriages as natural and matter-of-fact. Instead of having two parents they would now have one - or three, or four; they would learn to be visitors in one or both of their two "homes." Brothers & sisters would be divided. And many a child would lack actual care, suffer indifference or antagonism...
...argued against a prolonged U.S. occupation (instead, he wanted Germany's less compassionate neighbors to take over...
...thus severing its last connection with the school. Then Father Chalmers will join an Anglican Order, the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, which is dedicated as deeply to poverty, chastity and obedience, but requires that every member devote himself to some job. Kent boys would notice only one change: instead of the white robes of his old Order, Father Chalmers will now don a black cassock...
Rhinoplasty, Dr. Daley thinks, is a desperate expedient, justified only if 1) a nose cannot be breathed through, 2) a nose is so monstrously nasal that it attracts attention to itself instead of being a harmonious part of the face or 3) a nose is spoiling its owner's life (or he thinks it is) by making him feel unhappy...