Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Parsons, who visited friends in Prague, felt that Christmas traditions in the United States and in Czechoslovakia are essentially the same except that the Czech people go in for more caroling and more eating. "For Christmas dinner we had turkey, fish, cabbage, candy, cakes, wine, and more cakes, followed by a series of afternoon tea parties and more cakes,' 'she said...
Some of the older undergraduates, the letter admitted, had tried to stop the mob. One older boy, "indeed, performed an act of considerable courage when a smoke candle was thought to be endangering a child's life. Except for this," the Vice Chancellor concluded, "nothing can be said in extenuation of what must pass into University history as a shameful episode...
...other ways. For example, driving an automobile too much can cause a painful callus called "chauffeur's foot." Dr. Lewi keeps his own feet and leg muscles in shape by walking up & down from his fourth-floor office. He has never had any trouble with his feet, except for a corn back...
When it reopens as Copa City late this month, patrons will see a massive, flesh-colored, grand-piano-shaped building, with no openings except eight doors and four "blind" doors for fire escapes. The glittering interior is even more startling. Instead of being supported by columns, the ceilings and walls of the rooms are suspended from overhead trusses. The rooms can be made bigger or smaller, depending on the size of the crowd, simply by ra:sing the walls through slits in the ceiling. Geddes hopefully expects that Copa City, "an entirely new idea in buildings," will start a revolution...
...grey owl, a much larger and rarer creature in these parts and a bird which would hardly be likely to be lured into the big city even by the prospect of a Harvard-educated prey. We realize that this nomenclatural lapse is not a matter of any great concern, except to us, but in the interest of distinguishing between ornithological prodigy and editorial error, we respectfully submit this correction...