Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the term "subversive" ought to have a much wider application. "Subversive," as interpreted by some of these public servants, might easily include non-Communists who are suspiciously unorthodox or un-Democratic or un-Republican or possibly un-Toomeyish. But even if the legislature were composed of Eagle Scouts, instead of being conspicuously sprinkled with Toomeys, it would be dangerous to give that body the incredible power of deciding who could vote and who couldn...
...chapter titled "General Education--A Complete Answer?," the report criticizes the Administration for concentrating too much on the content of GE and other courses. Instead the College must come to "reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and incentives to actual learning...
While focusing on Morgan's character, the book clearly reveals the motives that led the financier on his dazzling career. Certainly it was hard to believe with the muckrakers that men of wealth were guided only by an insane desire to accumulate millions. Instead, Allen shows the financial giant with a supreme desire for order. The cut-throat competition of rampant industrialism which he saw after the Civil War was to him wasteful and harmful to the economy. His theory was justified in the 1890's when the vast confusion of railroad systems brought most of them to bankruptcy. Here...
...Folger's boiler room as overflow dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...
...Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have been Nelson's worst enemy, but who wrote instead: "God bless him, and shame fall on those who do not say amen...