Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jerusalem, the advance party of the Palestine Commission were prisoners of hate. They dared not stir out of the British security zone, encircled with barbed wire and gun emplacements, except in bulletproof cars. No Arab leader would speak to them; Jews had to talk to them mostly over the telephone...
Quietly and neatly, the Geography Department has had its relations with Harvard University severed. In fact, the entire process has been altogether too quiet and neat. Nobody has made any official announcements. Nobody has offered any official explanations. Except for communications within the department, and a terse statement by the Chairman of the Committee on Degrees for the Geological Sciences that "Harvard cannot hope to have strong departments in everything," nobody connected with the move has said anything of any kind about...
...take no risk whatever except when conscience compels us. We should not expend any 'risk' for the sake of having a scoop, for the sake of being the 'wise guy,' for the sake of attracting attention or being entertaining. . . . We must be scrupulously careful not to confuse what is happening with what we devoutly wish may happen...
...completely limited, since he has some sense of the limits-and, to that degree, transcends them. And, as he transcends them, he seeks to understand his immediate situation in terms of a total situation-i.e., God's will. But man is unable to understand the total situation except in the finite terms of his immediate situation. "The realization of the relativity of his knowledge subjects him to the peril of skepticism. The abyss of meaninglessness yawns on the brink of all his mighty spiritual endeavors. Therefore man is tempted to deny the limited character of his knowledge...
What sales there were did little to cheer the salesmen. Except for "used" new Cadillacs, which still command handsome ($1,100) premiums after they have been driven around the block a time or two, secondhand luxury cars were on a cutrate basis...