Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They sank all ships bigger than a rowboat in Petsamo harbor, burned villages, slaughtered livestock, rather than let the Russians have them. Reported in flames were the Canadian-owned mining properties at Nickel City...
When a coach inherits a bunch of Sophomores lacking in outstanding ability local sportswriters generally conclude their remarks about the squad with the ancient blurb, "--but the spirit is fine!" It is the choice of this writer to start, rather than conclude, his remarks with the blurb, for if what is called 'spirit' now can be translated into hard training for the duration of the season, then something tangible will have been achieved in the way of improvement. This, Coach Ulen will tell you, comes only from practice of the most strenuous sort...
...double sentiment which has moved Phi Beta Kappa to take this action is greatly to be praised. But the concrete turn which this sentiment has taken is rather questionable. Until a case of real suppression arises at Harvard, the Committee for Academic Freedom would serve no function but to cast aspersion upon Harvard's present-day tolerance in the eyes of the nation's liberal press. This is not a very worthwhile stake on which to gamble the position of aloof grandeur which PBK now occupies in the eyes of Harvard students...
...wedding, brought the couple back to Stillman immediately after the ceremony, with the promise that after 24 hours of good behavior on the part of the frustrated bridegroom, he might at last regain his liberty. So the newly-weds celebrated the ceremony in a most conservative manner in the rather disheartening atmosphere of the Infirmary...
Hearing Strawinsky's Symphony of Psalms last week suggested again the rather controversial subject of setting sacred texts in orchestral-choral compositions for the concert hall. To those who consider religious texts exclusively churchly and liturgical this practice seems a violation of the true character of the words...