Word: instead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preoccupation. In Titchfield, England, Mrs. Ann Rudd, mother of six, had a check bounce when instead of "two pounds six shillings" she wrote "two pounds six children...
Stevenson grabbed eagerly at Schindler's suspicions, puffed them into a demand that the Assembly reopen the investigation and call in Scotland Yard. He expected to be voted down, which could have left the suggestion that the Assembly Bay Streeters were covering up for one of their own. Instead, the motion was passed, thus in effect telling Stevenson to put up or shut...
Officials of a British post office in Farnham, Surrey, disclosed that months have passed since their most famous old-age pensioner dropped by to collect his weekly government check (basic pension: $7). Odds were not that Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 71, was forgetful about his stipend. Instead, with his memoirs (TIME, Nov. 3) selling handsomely (some 200,000 copies so far) and his "half pay" as an old soldier, Monty doubtless decided that the trip to the post office is no longer worthwhile: pension checks are reduced in accordance with the pensioner's outside income...
...Thoughtless prescription of blood transfusion is playing Russian roulette with bottles of blood instead of a revolver," wrote Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. of Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. "While the odds are in the physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type...
M.I.T. helped put an end to all that. Despite howls from the financial world, it opened its books and portfolio of stocks to the public, setting the pattern for the "fishbowl" policy under which the whole fund industry now operates. Instead of fighting New Deal legislation aimed at regulating investment-company practices, it recognized the need for regulation, helped the New Deal frame the laws. So similar were M.I.T.'s bylaws to the Investment Company Act of 1940, which laid the ground rules for the funds, that M.I.T. had to change only a few commas...