Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of his critics is that he needs to rest his mind again. The form, substance and manner of the case which he last week presented bore out no such view. He was calm, cogent, precise. He began by stating that he accused his colleagues of no dishonesty except intellectual dishonesty. Said...
...from the base of the lungs up & out. The movement they discovered was spiral and (viewed from above) clockwise. Particles traveled 1½ inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids, the particles quickly reached the alveoli, were not completely excreted except over a period of weeks. The researchers found that the cilia, to remove dust effectively, must be covered with a "blanket" of mucus. The cilia kept this mucus moving up & out of the lungs all the time...
...Arleen Whelan was a Hollywood manicurist. A lithe, natural lass with Celtic charm and an unaccountable suggestion of a double chin, she was soon rumored to be David Selznick's choice for Scarlett O'Hara. But Zanuck had already signed her. In Kidnapped her voice lacks depth, except when she is singing a Scottish ballad with Maxine Sullivan flavor. She acts as if she were not quite at home in Scotland or Hollywood...
...Approved the New York Stock Exchange's extension of SEC's rules on short-selling to odd as well as round lots. In January, SEC forbade short sales except at a price at least | of a point above the last transaction; odd lots-less than 100 shares-were specifically exempted. Before long almost a third of all odd-lot business was in short sales. The seven odd-lot firms on the floor agreed that something should be done. The governing committee of the Exchange drew up the new rule one morning, notified SEC at noon, had it approved...
...kilowatt-hours a month), 30% lower than Alabama Power's, Mayor Couch was sure that profits from the new plant would be sufficient to retire the bond issue. He claimed about 95% of the company's 800 customers were switching over -everybody except its stockholders and employes...