Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South was still grumbling. Memphis' Boss Ed Crump snarled: "I'm for anybody except Harry Truman. Any good Democrat will get my vote." But he added that there was no truth in reports that Southern states would hold a rump convention. Even without the South, Harry Truman seemed to be in. National Chairman J. Howard McGrath announced that his rock-bottom figures showed the President with a minimum of 900 of a possible 1,234 votes on the first ballot...
Career. A former newspaper editor and publisher, he has been elected to only one public office: U.S. Senator. He was appointed early in 1928 to fill an unexpired term, elected in November 1928, re-elected in 1934, 1940, 1946. Except for Kansas' aging Arthur Capper, he is the ranking Republican in the Senate, has been president pro tem since January...
Some teachers, like Samuel E. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, never care particularly for cross-town work. His courses in Colonial and Naval History, among the top offerings in the Department, were denied to 'Cliffedwellers except during the period when Morison's daughter was an undergraduate there. Many courses, although offered to girls, were taught by substitutes or younger teachers...
...Except for a serious lack of courage in Washington, this nation could have a stable economy, according to Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics...
...would have been more except for the play of goalie Dick Bernard. Bernard was nothing short of sensational; he made 31 saves, some of them almost incredible, and this total doesn't even include the horde of shots that were wide of the nets. Throughout the second half, Bernard played with a battered foot which, although X-rays showed no breaks, will keep him sidelined for a week...