Word: lieu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pompano already had a great record. Commander L. S. Parks, her skipper in the early days of the war, had won the Navy Cross and a gold star (in lieu of a second Cross) for his exploits. The Pompano stood high in the fleet of U.S. submarines that were harrying the enemy's supply line, wrecking his shipping. Aggressive, self-assured Tommy Thomas polished the record...
...though with the one who heard, first-hand, from a reliable party, that 10,000 word seminars are to be written for each course in lieu of final exams. There seems to be one in every Army, doesn't there...
...struggled rigorously to keep the money from rolling in is Thomas John Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. He was No. 2 on the 1939 list of the top ten salaries ($442,560). Of this honorarium, $100,000 was salary. Most of the rest was extra compensation, in lieu of royalties, on his patents. After a $6 dividend to stockholders, Tycoon Watson took 5% of net earnings...
...fullest cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways: nor ... to hand over our colonies in lieu of Lend-Lease...
Speaking before the Detroit Economic Club, Mr. Crawford rarely mentioned the Association's oriflamme of "free private enterprise" without interpolating the word "competitive" in lieu of "private." Whereas most of the resolutions passed by N.A.M. at its December convention in New York rarely mentioned competition, Mr. Crawford came back again & again, to the theme. Said...