Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the capital it was the same. Businessmen and contractors hardly recognized the place. Some came to Washington expecting to stay weeks to tie up the loose ends of wartime business. Instead, they returned home in two or three days, their business completed...
...press conference aboard the battleship New Jersey in Manila Bay. For those who assume that all admirals are intent upon the biggest postwar Navy obtainable, Spruance's views came as a little bombshell. Said he: the Navy should ,be substantially reduced; Okinawa should be a United Nations, instead of a U.S., base; U.S. bases in China or Formosa would not be practical; the Marianas, the Marshalls and the Carolines would be enough...
...first no paper could be found suitable for printing the instrument of surrender, but in the basement of the Catholic Trade School were just enough sheets of rich, heavy parchment. Army engineers printed the job in offset. It was decided to use plain staples, instead of white satin bows, to bind the sheets...
Full-Time Job. Racing men tried to talk free-spending Willie Helis into buying a breeding farm in Kentucky or Virginia. Instead, he bought New Jersey's long-idle, 1,200-acre Rancocas Farm. Helis' present ambition: 15 stallions and 250 brood mares, 225 new foals at Rancocas each spring...
Said by some to herald an interlocking of all colleges and their graduate schools, the Seven Year Plan has several disadvantages. Instead of escaping the restrictions of concentration, the student merely postpones them to a later, perhaps loss convenient time. Two degrees hang in the balance. The Seven Year student misses his Senior Year, perhaps the most important one for social and extra-curricular activities