Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scatterbrained modern man may be "too confused to grasp them." So Author Sheen begins his book where the readers of self-improvement volumes seem to feel most at home: the realm of psychology. "If the modern soul," he writes, "wants to begin its quest for peace with its psychology instead of with our own metaphysics, we will begin with psychology ... If the modern man wants to go to God from the Devil, why, then, we will even start with the Devil...
...some lines, buying had dropped off in spite of price cuts. Nash cut its prices $20 to $120; Willys, whose recent cut had brought no notable sales spurt, went on a four-day week. Car dealers complained that the spring buying wave had been a ripple instead of the hoped-for comber...
...Petersburg, Fla., slight, dapper James Earl Webb, 49, operates what he calls "the world's most unusual drugstore." Unlike most independent druggists, he never felt that he needed the protection of "fair-trade" (i.e., minimum-price) laws to protect him from the competition of big chain stores. Instead, he went out after customers with such unorthodox loss-leader promotions as selling two thousand $1 bills for 95? apiece. By selling everything from meat and liquor to haircuts and ladies' ready-to-wear, he boosted the annual gross of his hustle-bustling "Webb's City" from a first...
Shots & Shares. After he stumbled off, another stockholder popped up. Why not put vending machines in high-school cafeterias? Mack said he would try. Why had Pepsi's simple offices in Long Island City been sold, and expensive, midtown Manhattan offices rented instead? Said Mack: renting was cheaper and, anyhow, shouldn't executives have dignified offices? The stockholders applauded...
...course called Humanism in the West will replace Professor I. A. Richard's old Humanities 1, and another elementary Humanities course has been added. Social Sciences 1, which replaces History 1, will cover all Western tradition instead of just five periods...