Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hole In the Ice." For everyone else, there was a whole grab bag of social and economic promises: extended unemployment compensation, health insurance, reclamation, federal aid for education and housing. Except for universal military training and the European Recovery Program, there was little or nothing that Candidate Henry Wallace could not approve. By bearing down hard again on his ten-point anti-inflation program, the President was aiming right at the Republicans' most vulnerable point...
...with a lurid private vocabulary, Charley never seemed to work. He often needed a shave, spent much time in the Press Club playing chess and dominoes with his newspaper cronies. He held no man in awe. Once Franklin Roosevelt greeted reporters with the remark that there was no news "except that Charley Michelson needs a haircut." Snapped Michelson: "Somebody's got to economize around here." Once he told Jim Farley: "Jim, you're the most honest man alive. You wouldn't steal anything-except an election...
...Treasury struck a new half-dollar, the first since 1916, bearing the portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Only other Americans on coins (except for special issues): Lincoln (1909 penny), Washington (1932 quarter), Jefferson (1938 nickel), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1946 dime) and two unidentified Indians (1859 penny and 1913 nickel...
...tutoring school has returned to Harvard. This vicious institution, which once made a shame and a joke out of a Harvard degree, has regained, so far, only a limited foothold. But in all except size the reborn "tute schools" resemble the lecherous harpies which once crouched over Harvard Square and drained the College of every claim to honor and integrity...
...schools had grown to such an extent that they were tacitly accepted by both University Hall and the undergraduates. The Faculty and Administration tolerated and even abetted them by quickly ignoring their existence except when there was a flagrant violation of the common law copyright which the University holds on lecture material...