Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practices will be held nightly except on Friday, Saturday and Sunday until after the football season ends. Hemenway, home of grad school athletic units and the varsity squash team, is being used this week by the varsity because the Blockhouse courts aren't ready for occupancy yet. They're being cleaned and refinished but will be ready by this Monday...
...Except for the two formals on the Yale weekend, all dances will be informal and on Saturday evening...
...gallery in 1909. His command of classic sculpture caused so much talk that Matisse put up a sign in his studio, forbidding discussion of Nadelman. The sculptor was then 27, a shy, handsome Pole in a turtleneck sweater who stayed away from the cafes, almost never left his studio except for long walks at night...
...pictures were up to those on home receivers, except for "snow" in the Washington station and for brief blankouts on stretches of track beyond the range of transmitters. Reporters appeared less interested in the experiment than in the televised World Series game. A.P.'s Arthur Edson noted that, technically, reception "was surprisingly good," but complained that he had missed most of an inning because FCCommissioner Frieda Hennock was posing for news pictures in front of the screen. The New York Star's Ernest Barcella was chiefly concerned about what had happened to Warren Spahn: "He was pitching...
...drop was partly due to seasonal shipments of cattle to market, though they were running lower than at the same time last year. When prices started down, some farmers stopped shipping, hoping that a shorter supply would raise prices. Nevertheless, except for hogs, prices stayed down. The Department of Agriculture, which mortally hates and fears a fall in farm income, predicted that the lower prices would not last. Many another expert thought differently. Mark W. Pickell, executive secretary of the Corn Belt Livestock Feeders Association, said that prices would be "lower in November and December," even lower next year. Whoever...