Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exploding power which may well carry it to the IC4A championship this Saturday, Yale swept the mile, two-mile, and 600, won both relays, and scored heavily in every other event except the dash and 35-pound weight throw. In the latter event, Sam Felton, who placed second in the Nationals Saturday, hit 56 feet, 9 1/2 inches. This would have won the Nationals, where Felton's best effort was a toss of 54 feet...
...hours out, the barking of dozens of dogs welcomed them to the first village. Except for the dogs, it seemed deserted—some peasants had joined the Andartes; some were sleeping in the fields for safety's sake. From one house, however, a light glimmered. A Greek captain knocked. A woman's voice called: "Is that you, comrade?" She opened the door sufficiently to push out two loaves of bread, slammed it shut again. The captain smiled weakly: "She thinks we are Andartes...
...love affair with her brother, but because of her practice of taking parties of respectable Roman matrons to gladiators' taverns in the suburbs. Clodia has numerous love affairs, delights in building them up to some dramatic public humiliation of her lovers. Bold, self-righteous, Clodia can stand everything except the obscene verses about her which are now beginning to be scribbled in public places all over the city...
...Refusing to treat 12,000 city employees except as private patients, more than 900 of 1,000 doctors resigned in the only governmental compulsory health-insurance system in the U.S., located...
...Sanders has evidently seen its last days as anything except a proving ground for experimental drama. The current fire regulations state firmly that no scenery can be used. For a while, ordinary flats took the place of scenery. But just before the opening of "Henry IV" last December, the state building inspector decided that flats came under the category of scenery. He also threatened to close down the play, but later withdrew his objections--for the time being. According to the Cambridge fire chief, the inspector announced that if any more plays were going to be put on in Sanders...