Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand & Interesting." The shrillest greetings to 1948 came from the official trumpets of world Communism. Boomed Moscow's Pravda: "The age of capitalism is approaching its end." Russian kids, despite Marxist disapproval of all fairy tales except the Marxist one, crowded around Santa Claus (who in Russia is called Grandfather Frost and calls on Jan. 1-see cut). The Moscow radio started the year by broadcasting the cries of a newborn baby. "We don't know your name yet," cooed Announcer Yuri ("The Golden Voice of Victory") Levitan, "but we know you will have a grand and interesting...
...America. By putting up bars to payment of interest and principal, Latinos have done much to frighten new private U.S. capital away.† Last month Brazil reimposed a 5% tax on exported profits, and Argentina allows no dollars to leave unless matched by newly invested dollars. In every republic except Venezuela remittances are subject to costly exchange-control delays. In Socialist-run Venezuela, which currently offers the best Latin American climate for new private enterprise, U.S. oil companies plan to invest $300 million in the next two years...
Conversation around Coop counters this afternoon centered about nothing else except the daring and expert timing of the three bandits who actually participated in the robbery and their two aides...
...except the employees under the cover of the concealed pistol of the smaller "pock-marked" desperado realized that the two smoke bombs discharged were merely a blind for a robbery...
Last year Columbia ranked as one of the better teams in the East, whipped the Crimson 22 to 6, and went on to place fourth in the intercollegiates. This year all the men of the 1947 team except the 165-pounder are back at Morningside Heights, but the three top veterans have not competed for the Light Blue this winter. That Peterson might throw them against the Crimson is the issue...