Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent the college from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp takes it upon itself to break Brookton tradition with a parody number of the Police Gazette. Such obvious decadence...
Meanwhile a letter was received anent a significant adventure which befell Mr. Felix Morley, able correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Morley described how he had seen a big U. S.-built locomotive, "camouflaged and armored," come steaming into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were...
...promised another $1,000. The promised capital was called for, but was deaf. Dismayed, Munsey took his idea to a publisher and with unexpected suddenness, The Golden Argosy appeared in weekly issues. Five months later the publisher failed, owing Munsey $1,000 salary. Staggered, Munsey took the magazine in lieu of salary, although the magazine already owed more money than it was worth. Somehow $300 was borrowed, issues were brought out, and Munsey, working 18 hours a day, produced his classic 6,000-word serial, "Afloat in a Great City." As Munsey told the story: "I wanted something to advertise...
...read TIME each week in lieu of newspapers. . . . Last week, coming from the post with my copy, I said (to a friend whom I met): "Why don't you TAKE TIME TO BE WELL READ in the news...
...made the smallest beginning towards accumulating and making accessible the papers we have in mind . I would rather have your interpretation of them than of anybody else I know, and I trust that you will not think it unreasonable that I should ask you to accept these promises in lieu of others which would be more satisfactory, but which, for the present, would be without practical value...