Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be a fine world when we all allow the other fellow to have his own mannerisms and when we observe his differences from ourselves with interest instead of with resentment. The war has certainly proved beyond question that there are splendid qualities in both English and Americans and that those qualities extend themselves in both countries throughout all types, kinds and classifications of people...
...fleet he bore word of how relatively weak the Japanese were in the Visayas. Halsey conferred with Vice Admiral Mitscher, then commanding Task Force 38, and with Nimitz. Soon he was on his way to see MacArthur, who agreed to a new plan of invading the Philippines in October instead of December, and at Leyte instead of Mindanao...
...nation may change its currency value as much as 10% without the Fund's okay. But further changes cannot be made over the Fund's objection. If France found herself short of U.S. dollars, she could get them from the common money pool (see chart) instead of restricting her imports from the U.S. France's contributions to the Fund would determine the limit of her total borrowings at any one time. When France later obtained dollars in trade, she could put them back in the Fund...
...nearly all of this debt was locked tight within the sterling area-the British dominions and economic dependencies. For instance, Britain owed India a billion pounds. India wanted dollars to buy in the U.S. But if Britain released dollars, that would result in Britain owing the U.S. instead of India...
...find time ... to worry about all that stuff? . . . We're living in one of the damnedest tragic moments in history - if you want to go to pieces I think it's absolutely O.K. but I think you ought to write a first-rate novel about it . . . instead of spilling it in little pieces." And soon Fitzgerald, with amazing fortitude, set out to do just that. "I never blame failure," he told his daughter Frances, "but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort." In The Last Tycoon he made a last, powerful effort both to create an objective...