Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workings of the machine are fairly shuple. A stencil is placed over the test paper which covers all spaces except those where correct answers are supposed to be marked. Both the test paper and the stencil are then placed in a slot up against a panel of thick copper pins. When the machine is turned on, the pins pick up all pencil marks that show through the spaces in the stencil, because pencil marks made with special pencils, conduct electricity. The rest is simple. The machine just "counts" the number of electrical impulses and then stamps it on the exam...
...monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys when it comes...
...embarrassing ailment, because most people-including many doctors-have long associated gout with high living and heavy drinking.* Eighteenth Century British Surgeon John Hunter, who had gout himself, said bluntly that "most people who have had the gout severely have deserved it." Physiologist Erasmus Darwin, who drank little except cowslip wine, announced flatly in 1794: "I have seen no person afflicted with gout who has not drank freely of fermented liquor...
...Driscoll is a rarity among child actors: when relaxed, he is an attractive kid, and when called upon to act, he is not at all repellent. His battle to save his black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...
...Except for the paper-thin figure of Ernestina, the novel abounds with brilliantly sketched characters. The prose is bright and economical, and its story is peppered with helpful melodrama. A year and a half ago Author Davidson published The Steeper Cliff, a fine first novel. In The Hour of Truth, he has cleared that dangerous hurdle, the second...