Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loathing on the idea that we hold classes to teach our writers "TIME style." (Some people seem to think we do.) Many a man wanting to write for TIME has been turned down because samples of his work showed he was an imitator of TIME -as he imagined it -instead of a writer of direct, vivid, sense-making English...
Teele said that the Student Employment Office would not operate as an alumni placement bureau, that it would not assume the task of permanent placement of all Harvard graduates. The program of the Office, he said, would try instead, to prepare students to cope with whatever employment problems than might come up in their post-graduate careers...
...Instead of being an agency by itself, Teele remarked, the Office ought to be worked into the placement activity of the College departments
...child to be born in: 1) there is little evidence that hospital delivery has reduced maternal or infant deaths; 2) it exposes the newborn infant to hospital-prevalent diseases (notably diarrhea) and the scientific inhumanity of doctors and nurses. Separating the baby from its mother at birth, instead of allowing it to be cuddled and breastfed, is a bad beginning, says Dr. Bakwin. The crime is compounded when the baby is put on a clock-ruled feeding schedule, a practice which is almost bound to produce overanxiety in parents and loss of appetite in children...
...most fascinating periods of his varied life. A few years ago, in another autobiographical chapter called In the Mill (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), Masefield showed that he could distill romance even from the job he once held in a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory (1895). With a deck instead of a rug under his feet, Britain's 67-year-old Poet Laureate puts his memories, in pure and simple descriptive prose, to better use than ever. Like its great predecessor Life on the Mississippi (which Author Mase field has reread once a year for decades), New Chum has the freshness...