Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blacksmith's Son. Except for the usual pride in being a Texan, Ben Hogan had little to start out with. He was the son of Chester Hogan, the town blacksmith in Dublin, Tex. It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies. A silent, left-handed runt of a kid, Ben learned how to ride and to fight with his fists...
...pressurized and protected against the sun's heat, cosmic rays and meteors. Since it would be "falling" freely, the crew would not feel the earth's gravitation any more than do the passengers of a freely falling elevator. Their bodies, tools-and food would have no weight except that caused by the feeble gravitation of the satellite itself. No one knows whether human bodies would function under such conditions. One proposed solution: making the satellite spin. This would produce centrifugal force that would act like gravitation. Then the satellite's crew, walking around on the inside...
...trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
...Harvard Student Council is not God. This statement will astonish nobody except-the Harvard Student Council. Last Week that august organization, acting as if it were authorized and sanctioned from on high, held a closed meeting at which it removed Robert C. Fisher from the Council-operated NSA delegation. And it brought out of its closed session such an opaque and vague list of reasons--apparently based to some extent on information that has never been made public--that the student body, who elected Fisher, received no adequate idea of why he was impeached. Probably his impeachment was justified...
...Council. This is clearly not as it should be. The fact is that the Council had no right to close the meeting, and thereby to withhold information from the student body. The Council constitution says that it "shall issue complete reports covering the business of all meetings" except "when two thirds of a quorum feel that publication of information concerning a subject will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole." It is hard to see how it would have been "detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole" if the student body...