Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Invite Dispute. It did so in a peculiar fashion. The majority did not pass on the validity of the Chicago ordinance; it objected instead to the way the trial judge had construed the ordinance in his instructions to the jury. He had defined "breach of the peace" to mean misbehavior which "stirs the public to anger, invites dispute, brings about a condition of unrest, or creates disturbances...
...income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...descendant of a four-legged animal, man is constructed on the horizontal principle," Antipin had told a group of workers. "By becoming vertical, he is [like] a steam engine rolling along on its back wheels ... By using artificial meat grinders instead of his own teeth, he has weakened his chewing equipment and acquired the toothache . . . Man's internal organs pile up one on top of the other like the floors of a building. This causes heart ailments...
...systematically reduced by applying against the debt one-fifth of the dollars the U.S. pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going world prices, instead of charging all that the traffic would bear. Jim Bruce felt that his mission had begun to bear fruit...
...Surely if these companies were really sincere in their desire for better unions, they would now be backing the university service instead of attacking it, or remaining 'innocently' silent...