Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite dates have yet been arranged except for the Gold Coasters. Students are acting as agents in the seven upperclass dormitories and Dudley, while one of the eight will serve double duty for those without Cambridge connections...
Munroe wouldn't have minded this little friendly rivalry except for the fact that the saxophonists were so far ahead of the rest of the band that they lapped the others in going through the repertoire for the third time...
Frank Lloyd Wright, the most uncompromising and one of the most fertile U. S. architects of the 20th Century, has worked with no school or organization except his own small colony of disciples at Taliesin, Wis. What another gifted architect, Manhattan's William Lescaze, calls "the first principle of architecture-building what we need out of what we have that best serves the purpose, using the best tools available," is not studied in schools of architecture so much as is the record of the needs, materials and tools of architecture in the past. This is the eclectic tradition fostered...
...dinosaur would to a man-were the dinosaur 60 feet long with eyes big as plate-glass windows and paws as long as automobiles. The praying mantis, harmless to man, has an insatiable appetite for insects, is willing to fight with anything edible up to cats and dogs-except ants. So voracious is the mantis' appetite for live food that when mating is completed, or sometimes even during mating, the female attacks the smaller male, holds him between powerful pincers, calmly devours...
...Author. Most readers were not surprised that Louis Bromfield had once again written a long, thin book-which has nothing in common with E. M. Forster's great Passage to India except locale-but they were surprised to find it brown-skinned. On the publication of his last novel, The Farm (1933), Ohio-born Author Bromfield, long a Senlis (near Paris) expatriate, firmly announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three...