Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end, only two more major battles remained, over amendments 1) to strike out the section of the bill abolishing the office of Comptroller General and 2) to except a number of agencies from the group which the President could change. With two victories to their credit, Administration Senators felt reasonably confident of winning their final...
...Mowrer had just been to the headquarters of the Spanish commander of the 35th Leftist Division who told him with a wry smile: "Yes, I am here; my staff is here; everybody is here except the 35th division...
...Albuquerque Tribune, which arranged it, the trip was a fine journalistic stunt. For the children, although they did not know it, it was an extraordinary dose of education. All Juan Tomas' 40 schoolboys and girls (aged 5 to 13), except three who were ill, arrived sober and silent, drinking in everything with their eyes. They were marched first into a park for a picnic lunch and ice cream. Five little girls found they did not like ice cream, gave their cones away. The rest nibbled tentatively, then gulped...
...great stumbling block to Dr. Green's plan is that corneas deteriorate if not used within 24 hours of death. The corpses used in medical schools would provide a good source of fresh corneas except that California's curator of corpses, Dr. Guy Stillman Millberry (longtime dean of the University of California College of Dentistry), disposes of no unclaimed body for at least a day-when its corneas are no longer fit for transplanting...
...glad you remembered, Vag. Don't ever forget again. But I won't disturb you any longer. Except for this---" She picked up Meade and flung it across the room...