Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshman Jubilee campaign rallies or stunts will take place in the Yard or other University grounds except the area immediately surrounding the Union, a special board decreed yesterday...
...home, after being asked to leave by the Hungarian government, U.S. Minister Selden Chapin had his own comments: "No one, except the blind and twisted, can fail to see that the Hungarian people are under the complete, total domination of a group of Moscow-trained Communists whose sole allegiance is to the Kremlin." Of the cardinal he said: "It is impossible to explain the transformation of that lion who was chief of the Hungarian Catholic Church...
...inspire respect rather than pity, Molina left out the traditional wounds, a departure that shocked Neiva's orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...
Next day the DuPont Co., maker of nylon, issued a somewhat huffy communique. Strong acids "degrade" (weaken) nylon yarn, and soot particles sometimes contain enough sulphuric acid to do the deed. But it does not happen often. Except to a few uncommon chemicals, DuPont insisted, nylon is at least as resistant as silk, rayon or cotton...
Nobody had quarreled with the annuity when it had been granted to aging, cello-sized (5 ft. 4 in.) Conductor Mengelberg in September 1939. Through 44 years, except for stretches in New York (1921-29) and London, he had devoted himself to pounding and polishing Amsterdam's orchestra into one of the two or three finest in the world...