Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aching hunger, rather than lack of munitions, has become Leftist Spain's gravest problem. Leftists can point with pride that their troops have held their own for the last three months. Now Leftists are handicapped by this summer's poor harvest, the cutting in two of Leftist territory, the feeding of 3,000,000 refugees who fled before Rightist advances, difficulties of transportation, ceaseless bombing, sinking of food ships bound for Leftist harbors...
...Traditionalist Bagley: In your opinion, should our public schools prepare boys and girls for adult responsibilities through systematic training in such subjects as reading, writing, arithmetic, history and English, requiring mastery of such subjects, and, when necessary, stressing discipline and obedience, with informal learning recognized but regarded as supplementary rather than central...
Elimination of tooth decay, they warned, is not the task of cooks. "We do not advocate the deletion of cereals from the diet, but rather suggest that measures be directed to removing or inhibiting the offending carbohydrate fractions prior to human consumption." No cure for adults, a strictly regulated diet will be of value only to children. Said the Brothers Belding: "You have to catch them young...
...white blood cells) which circulate aimlessly through the body, flow with great rapidity to a site of infection, where they envelop and absorb the invading bacteria. No leucocytes gathered to defend the intoxicated rabbits. Contrary to common medical belief, said Dr. Pickrell, alcohol does not paralyze the defensive leucocytes. Rather it prevents the blood vessels from dilating and makes their walls impermeable, thus trapping the leucocytes and preventing their migration...
...matter of prices, international producers' associations usually step on the accelerator rather than on the brake. But the three-year-old international copper cartel has learned better from the sad experiences of the older cartels. Fortnight ago the cartel permitted an increase in production from 95% to 105% of agreed tonnage. Despite this deterrent, prices continued to rise. Last week the cartel removed all restrictions on production, thus dumped a potential 30,000 tons per month more copper on the international market. This time the U. S. price pulled up short at 11.25?, the export price fell...