Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rather than let the case go to trial, Maestro Whalen last week settled with Engineer Shadgen for $45,000 cash, re-engaged him as a consultant for the Fair's duration...
...Frenchman would rather have a big British Army in existence than any other army, except the big French Army. The way in which things are looked at in France, even by the proletariat, made the defense moves taken in Paris last week important (not necessarily decisive) in the labor war which anti-Daladier zealots tried meanwhile to kindle, with some success...
...noses of 100 healthy control mice, with large quantities of sleeping sickness virus. More than 60% of the mice with "colds" survived the sleeping sickness injections; of the healthy, untreated mice, less than 25% survived. It was not the nasal bacteria which saved the mice, said Dr. Armstrong. Rather the bacteria stimulated production of defensive leucocytes (white blood cells) which poured into the nose in great numbers. The fortifying leucocytes provided protection for at least five days...
...doorway melts into a vast, minutely painted ocean. In Mental Geography a modern angel with bomb fins instead of wings perches on a twisted cable of Brooklyn Bridge, ruined by bombing. In these and other paintings Guglielmi has developed a specifically American variant of Surrealism-grotesqueries dependent on rational rather than irrational meaning...
Schubert: Sonata in A Minor (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist; Columbia: 5 sides). In Schubert's rather discursive sonata for cello and piano, Cellist Feuermann proves himself the world's No. 2 cellist, a close second to Cellist Casals...