Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed himself much more than a soldier. Skillfully, he played one warlord off against another. He won the confidence of the commercial class, traditionally distrustful of soldiers; the bankers backed Chiang-as the stabilizing force in China. In July 1928, Chiang triumphantly entered Peking; he was master of China except for a few pockets of resistance...
...experiments on the towering cumulus clouds of summer, results were hardly better. Seventy-nine of them got the dry-ice treatment, but only 18 produced any rain; in all cases except five, rain was already falling within 30 miles. Even in these five cases, there was natural rain 40 to 60 miles away...
Queues & Q. Cantabrigians knew him as a stooped and chivalrous gentleman, who walked with mincing little steps, and never appeared on the lecture platform except in morning coat and striped trousers. He always claimed to hate lecturing ("Why do we do it? Why do we do it?") But scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church...
Empty Bowl. Whatever the final outcome, NBC's Sunday evening position looked bleak, except for Fred Allen. At one time, NBC strategists had thought of filling in with a series of crime-mystery plays. But that bet was automatically ruled out by NBC's own ban on mystery shows before 9:30 p.m. (presumably the hour when all little pitchers are in bed). Crumped one disgruntled executive: "We've made our policy. Now we have to sleep with...
When the curtain went up, the stage was bare, except for a few pieces of scenery with their brown canvas backs to the audience. The dancers appeared from the wings in their practice clothes: men in dark overalls, girls in black bathing suits. They began to move and gesture. Someone backstage dropped his tools with a loud clatter. In the audience, a small voice asked "Maman, where is the music...