Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these "psychological laws of human behavior" [TIME, April 11 et seq.] upon which Professor Stace et al. claim morality can be based? Why cannot these laws be altered by the individual to suit himself, if they themselves are not grounded in a deeper reality? If charity has no reality except as a pragmatic mode of behavior, an individual could logically devise his own morality when his good appears to conflict with society's good. It then becomes a matter of who has the best opportunity and the most power...
...Provost Furniss himself says that the known agents are only a minority in the New Haven FBI system. No one agrees on this system's area of investigation. In the physics department alone, some feel that every faculty member and student is under surveillance; others believe that few men except applicants for government positions and men involved in government projects are being checked...
Duccy, who was varsity coxswain in his undergraduate years, held the first practice for his intramural oarsmen the day before spring vacation. Since then he has drilled his boats assiduously except on Saturdays and Sundays...
...Friday the Faculty Committee on Student Activities checked the Sphinx's constitution and finances and voted that the group had fulfilled all requirements except for its name. Phoenix SK--the "S" stands for Sphinx--has claimed duplication of titles...
...Russians. When British Communists recommended him for a dangerous "assignment" on the Continent, he jumped at the chance, entered the Red army intelligence six months before the fall of Madrid. He became a cog in an espionage network that Fed information directly into Red army headquarters in Moscow. Except for an interval in a Swiss jail, he worked for the Russians until 1947. But long before that time Foote's disillusionment...