Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding the Election of December 12, the nation-wide census of the Soviet Union taken last year would have come in handy, except that the Soviet Government recently rejected this immense fruit of statistical labor in toto, announcing that it was "grossly unsatisfactory and based upon clearly unsound statistical practices.'' Nonetheless every Soviet editor was busy preparing to announce on December 13 that some 100,000,000 Russians have voted -census or no census, pencils or no pencils, pulp or no pulp...
...life. Napoleon divorces Josephine (out of camera range). He arranges to wed Habsburg Marie Louise. Marie Walewska is disgusted. Says she: "'The savior of Europe has become a son-in-law." Not until after the retreat from Moscow does Marie have much more to do with the Emperor, except for bearing him a son. At Elba they are reunited and Marie agrees to take a message to his followers, telling them the eagle is returning, cured of royalty, to try once more his dream for the United States of Europe. When the dream has been dissolved at Waterloo, Marie...
...Blatz excused the fact that the Quintuplets are asocial by observing that their lack of contact with other children, except for occasional visits from their older brothers and sisters, is a mental and social handicap. Reported Dorothy A. Millichamp, Dr. Blatz's assistant, who has kept a detailed record of the children's conduct: "The Quints are practically ignorant of life lived by other people, except for rare visits to the hospital kitchen which is a great treat. . . . They were slow to learn bladder control because five commodes on the veranda made going to the toilet a social...
...have wondered whether the current market troubles presage a major catastrophe such as occurred in 1929, this low figure was a bulwark of optimism. It proved that Wall Street credit was not over-extended as it was in 1929 when brokerage loans toted up over $8,000,000,000. Except for this strong argument the Reserve Board would almost certainly not have yielded to the Wall Street demands for lessened Government restriction...
...Except for shivering, a human being has no protection against cold. When a newshawk asked Dr. Hardy if "goose pimples" were not a protection, the scientist replied that those protuberances were a relic of the days when the ancestors of men were covered by thick hair. The gooseflesh served to fluff the body hair into a more efficient heat-insulating covering...