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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Stuffy needs more than anything else -- except possibly more time -- is pitchers. Godin, the veteran righthander from Ohio, seems headed for a great season in his third year of varsity ball. He did some pitching for the Great Lakes nine which Bobby Feller managed, although Denny Galehouse did most of the hurling...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Nine, Weak on Mound, Girds for Spring Trip | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

Adams won the Inter-House foils tournament yesterday afternoon after every other team except Kirkland had dropped out by the quarter-finals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Wins Over Deacons in House Foils Tournament | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

...slight edge crept into his voice when someone brought up the subject of the Dixiecrat rebels. They are not good Democrats, Harry Truman snapped. But except for that one outburst his whole mood was one of friendly conciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Forgive & Forget? | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Reserved Rights. Every time the U.S. protested against treaty violations, said the State Department, the satellites pointed out that protests must be made "in concert" with the West's Russian allies. The Russians flatly refused to act in concert-or to act at all except in support of the local Reds. Huffed the State Department: "The U.S. Government reserves all its rights under the treaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: This Is the Peace | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Accent on Interest. Beloff complained that, except for a few "radicals such as Chancellor Hutchins of the University of Chicago," there is "a certain lack of boldness" on the part of educators. They seem sold on the idea "that every young person has a right to a higher education, irrespective of ability or previous training." And what is the result? A notion, said Beloff, "that the total number of students is more important than the quality of the work done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spoon-Feeding? | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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