Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force to 55 groups (TIME, April 5). Forrestal's recommendation was based on a "balanced" military structure. His theory: a bigger Air Force is ineffective without a bigger ground force. Even Air Force men admit that U.S. aircraft cannot deliver a decisive blow against the enemy except from overseas bases defended by ground troops...
Then he hurried to his limousine and, with sirens screaming, swept down to a reviewing stand on Constitution Avenue to watch the capital's Army Day parade. As a military spectacle, it was a flop-only a handful of regular troops, one gun, no heavy equipment except a twelve-ton cargo truck. But there were 14 bands, and two dozen P-80s overhead...
...thing"-turned out to be one of the most stimulating intellectual influences of its time. But literary and political historians will find little in Enjoyment of Living to give them an inside view of that magazine. Nor, indeed, will they find much information about any kind of American life-except Max Eastman's own. There is endless talk of his sexual and mental characteristics-an often maudlin study which is not so much a matter of enjoyment as an involved, embarrassing account of the continuous trials & errors of an uncertain and mentally harried intellectual. The book carries Eastman from...
...committee, however, praised "the complete cooperation of the College." Except for Leverett and Lowell Houses, which were considered comparatively low, all the College donations were higher than originally expected. Dunster House was the pace-setter all the way, ending with an average gift...
There are currently only eight "absolutely safe" cover girls: Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, June Haver and Esther Williams. A male star on the cover-some editors except Alan Ladd-can reduce newsstand sales (about 95% of the total) by as much...