Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today at an unprecedented and alarming rate. It is an ominous fact that at least one-fourth of the world's population is involved in merciless, devastating conflict. . . . Tension throughout the world is high." For support of his program he appealed to almost all apathetic or opposition groups except pacifists...
...hoped that the program of Carnival events in which general participation in invited will be found so extensive that no Carnival visitor will feel that Dartmouth hospitality has been restrained except as its limitations have been dictated by necessity...
...fiction still has a gothic tradition that realists have never been able to conquer, running from Poe right down to the operatic extravagances of Thomas Wolfe. Last week its persistence was demonstrated by a long first novel that had all the ingredients of a gothic romance except a ghost, and which seemed all the more extraordinary because its wild scenes were laid in Boston in 1919, and its gothic horrors tied to a social message...
...enter the Kremlin, which is a small city (wherein J. Stalin has his office) shut off from the rest of Moscow by enormous, closely guarded walls, is a privilege now granted only exceptionally to Soviet citizens and foreigners. Last week the 569 deputies of the Council of the Union and some 3,000 other people who had acquired special permits surged into the Hall of St. Andrew (Throne Room) of the Great Kremlin Palace. The seats for the spectators were separated only by a small barrier from those of Russia's elected representatives. So it was hard to tell...
...ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections of a number of Dutch votes. . . ." Said Minister Stuttaford: "Personally I would recommend the book to anyone-except, of course, to a Sunday School...