Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME-and so was LIFE except for the first million copies of its run; as soon as the official New York City figures were revised from 18 million to 99 million tons, LIFE replated...
...Except around Times Square, driving in New York City was dangerous and skiddy, with conditions around Boston just...
Slight, soft-spoken Béla Bartók, who left fascist Hungary in 1940, had lived his last years in the U.S. and died broke and unrecognized (except by a few) in Manhattan. If his music was played at all in his lifetime, it was usually for one hearing only, or before tiny groups of enthusiasts. Few of his works had been recorded while he was alive, and they had not sold well. Rehearsal for Critics. On the same afternoon that San Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue...
...picture attains a focus of unusual moral and dramatic interest when a minister (Joe E. Brown) steals the dog and faces trial and jail rather than return him. But everything is comfortably fixed up before this conflict between legality and sentiment can seriously excite or embarrass the audience. Except for some ugly moments around the dog pit, and the irreducibly likable Mr. Brown, who plays it straight and sweet, the picture is a pathetic miss...
Said Benjamin Franklin: "The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of Human Understanding.... We have been assured, Sir, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...