Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who will stay in Cambridge next week, the University will try to make life as simple as possible. The Union and Graduate dining halls will serve during the period, and except for the swimming pool, all athletic facilities will operate as usual...
Open to all officially registered students at Harvard and Radcliffe--except Grad Forum members--the contest calls for submission of a 1,500-word essay to the Forum at Farlow House 24 Quincy Street, by Monday, April...
...money would be safe. The cashier merely nodded towards the plaque of Hamilton on the wall. "I judge you've been through several panics," said the customer-and deposited more than $1,000,000. The trust was well placed; the bank has paid a dividend every year except in panic-stricken 1837 when dividends were banned by law. (It paid double the following year...
...movie house. He emerged spellbound, exclaiming: "My dear, it was wonderful! That splendid detective! . . . And those policemen on motorcycles, actually shooting at 60 miles an hour. So clever of them. And the brave man who jumped on to the moving train. . . ." Thenceforth, mad Lord Orris adored everything from Hollywood-except Walt Disney cartoons, which he said fretfully were "too much like real life...
Focus of Confidence. It is a time for greatness, but greatness is unpredictable in any President. More exactly, it is a time for statesmanship in the White House and Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom...