Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Except in the goalie position, there are innumerable lettermen available. At defense, Ecker was the only loss from last year. But with Hicks, Russ Allen, Charlie Houghton, and Gene Emerson back, there seems to be no cause for immediate alarm. The only drawback is that Allen, still recovering from his injury in the Army game, will probably not be able to participate strenuously until after the Christmas vacation. However, he is expected to be on skates by this Friday...
...Except for clarifying the issues involved in a union of churches. The Edinburgh Conference "didn't get much done." More success could be achieved by "saying our prayers together" than by debates around the conference table. Dean Sperry pointed toward the drift toward unity in this country as a hopeful sign of the eventual success of the movement...
...Slogum House, Mari Sandoz sets herself the gigantic task of making this unnatural mother humanly understandable, is kept from doing so by Gulla Slogum's many crimes, her lack of all familiar human characteristics except greed. An oldfashioned, 400-page chronicle, slow-moving despite its many melodramatic episodes, Slogum House is set against the same brutal Nebraska-pioneer background pictured in Mari Sandoz' Old Jules, which won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Non-Fiction Prize in 1935. That unsparing biography of the author's father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors...
...road balance). Nearest to this ideal are the English, one point low on humor and sensibility. The Germans, Japanese and Russians make the worst showing, being much too high on dreams, much too low on humor and sensibility. The Americans are one point high or low on everything except realism...
...history has organized lying been practiced so shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley, is to stop whoring after the false gods of Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (except in its "extravagant asceticism .. . brutally cynical forms of realpolitik"). Most modern morality and social philosophy will have to go. In their place, men shall substitute such proverbs as: "All that we are ... is the result of what we have thought. . . . Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because...