Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty townspeople had run away. Last week 30 of them came back to find all the money and food gone (except for a few hidden loaves of bread); the bank, the police station and the post office burned to the ground...
When Bill Pawley resigned, he had little to show for his two years-except for his important spadework for the Rio and Bogota conferences. But his friends believed that he left behind him ideas which would live and grow. Already Brazil had shown itself more receptive to U.S. investment in oil development. Pawley had tried to interest U.S. iron and steel men in the possibilities of Itabira (TIME, April 5). Some day that work might bear fruit...
Toscanini was baptized a Roman Catholic, but has seldom gone to church in recent years, except for the first communions of his two grandchildren. He refuses to conduct without a heavy, brass-framed strip of pictures of his children in his pocket. (The strip includes a picture of son Giorgio, who died at eight in South America...
...first glance, the parents, too, seemed fine; they were just the kind of people who, birth-controllers say, ought to have more children. Except in one case, there was no known insanity in their families. The fathers were scientists, college professors, artists, clergymen, business executives, psychologists, psychiatrists. All but five of the mothers had gone to college; all but one had been active, before or after marriage, as scientists, laboratory technicians, physicians, nurses, librarians, artists...
...Atlanta, the University of Chicago's President Ernest C. Colwell* told Southern colleagues that only a dozen U.S. universities deserved the name. (He declined to identify them.) Added Colwell: "Universities cannot be rapidly multiplied in number, nor can their output of graduates be increased,.except as quality is lost. It must follow then, as night follows day, that the G.I.s in the universities (though not necessarily in the colleges) will be shortchanged...