Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinction between being in favor of me and being against you is a difficult one to draw. But, the world being in the delicately balanced state that it is, fine distinctions can be most important. Nothing, except appeasement, is more likely to cause a war than aimless provocation. God knows, we haven't been guilty of appeasement this time. But there is a pattern of unthinking opposition in our foreign policy which is exceedingly dangerous...
...play of the afternoon was a neatly-executed pitch-out from the Winthrop quarterback to Leverett and Guil Brown, who raced 70 yards for the lone Bunny score. Except for this stunt the Puritans played a steady ball game. Quarterback Dick Couch used straight power plays to take advantage of Leverett's aggressive but out-weighed line...
...Except for the Deacons' one scoring drive, Dudley kept the Kirkland backs successfully bottled up. The Commuter backerups were usually able to rig an effective defense against Kirkland's single wing plays...
...where he had called a meeting of 25 leading Bostonians. including Harvard's James Bryant Conant. and Charles Francis Adams. Said he: Lever was going to build a 20-story building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street and a $3,000,000 research laboratory in Edgewater, N.J. Everything except manufacturing (25-30% of Lever's total production) would leave Boston by Dec. 1, although the new building would not be ready for two years...
...Except for a slump in railroad carloadings there were few signs as yet that the strikes were having much effect on business. It would be several weeks before most auto manufacturers felt any real pinch in their steel supplies. Some businessmen were cutting down on forward buying, and steel warehouses were planning to allocate their dwindling supplies. But Mill & Factory magazine, in its latest survey of 1,000 manufacturers, found that 63% of them thought that the business outlook was brighter now than six months...