Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five or sixman line, the blue attack met up with a seven-man stonewall with a stick of dynamic in the form of Harry Gates behind it. Stopped on the ground the Elis turned to the air, and there a severe case of butterfingers struck all the receivers except Al Hessberg...
From the point of view of the University itself, the "Student Faculty" system should spread much good will and greater understanding of Harvard among the underprivileged persons of greater Boston. There are many persons who are our next door neighbors, yet they know nothing about us, except what they read in the papers or hear through rumor. Often these hearsay impressions are unfounded, and hostile, and such impressions can only be corrected by giving a first hand knowledge...
...Ceremonies, points out that the canonization of a Catholic saint, although it is at least as elaborate as the British Coronation, is never rehearsed. Canonizations "being purely religious exercises the idea of rehearsal is repugnant. . . . These grandiose functions are held at such in frequent intervals that the performers, except the Pope, the Pontifical Court and the College of Cardinals are never the same. [Yet] they must appear spontaneously perfect, as if each single participant had known his part for a lifetime and acted from inherent impulse. . . . One interesting particular is that gifts of candles, bread, wine, water, turtle doves...
...Lawrence's crew carry small electroscopes in their pockets which they discharge into a meter at the end of the working day to see how much radiation they have been exposed to. Since neutrons cannot be controlled by magnetic fields and slide easily through almost all substances except those rich in hydrogen, Dr. Lawrence moved the control panel 60 ft. away from the apparatus and surrounded the machine with tanks of water six feet high, three feet thick (every water molecule contains two neutron-braking hydrogen atoms). No one is allowed inside this barrier when the cyclotron is running...
When things have come to such a pass that the Sultan turns commoner and runs for president, Eddie to his horror is made a write-in opposition candidate, campaigns against himself to no effect: he sweeps the country except for the outlying provinces of Maino and Vermontash. The nine old councilors declare the election unconstitutional, and Eddie leaves town on a magic carpet, which he controls by a cantrip-"inflation" to go up, ''deflation" to come down. Eventually the carpet burns away from under him,* and he comes to earth with a thud, wakes to find himself...