Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason: Although some hand-propelling method was ordered installed on all 60-passenger U. S. lifeboats except motor boats after the yeoman rescue work performed by the Monarch of Bermuda at the Morro Castle disaster in 1934, the Fleming boats until recently had not been approved because they have aluminum alloy non-sinkable bulkheads instead of steel. This year they were approved for installation on three liners being built for the Government-owned Panama Line...
...Snead's colleagues feared that he might be doubly dangerous on his home course, they were exactly right. Except for a momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...
...been written four times; by Hitchcock himself, by Hitchcock and a scenario writer, by Hitchcock and a dialogue writer and finally by Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville. Once work begins on the set, it progresses rapidly. Because Hitchcock considers it unnecessary to ex plain to them anything except the scene with which they are specifically concerned, his actors are often as baffled by what is going on as audiences will be later...
When the stones were taken up, nothing was discovered except that Spenser's monument rested on somebody else's bones. Authorities hastily covered the graves, announced firmly that there would be no more digging in Poets' Corner...
...Black Book. With an underground reputation like Miller's, Lawrence Durrell writes less of the subject that has kept Tropic of Cancer out of the U. S. But he puts in enough words to prevent The Black Book from being published anywhere except in Paris. Less shocking than Tropic of Cancer, The Black Book follows a similar pattern, with realistic scenes giving way to tumultuous passages of invective and bitter rhapsody...