Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Taking a fresh view of the conflict between high school fringe benefits and academic courses, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of the Johns Hopkins University, observed: "I am not opposed to classes in driver training, typing, woodworking, (cooking and the like), except when they are substituted for sound intellectual development." The trouble is, he said, they are substituted all too often. His proposal: "Remove all peripheral subjects (from the four-year high school curriculum). Concentrate these subjects in a 13th school year for those who want vocational education." ¶From Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association...
...heart and says: "If I didn't hold it, my heart would fall out." He has a knack for sharp, snide ad-lib remarks on just about anything, including his sponsors: ("Now for the most important, climactic moment of the show-Queen Bee [vitamins], which cures everything, except me"). On Leonard Bernstein: "I don't think as much of him as he does. Lennie has no humor about his egomania. I do." On love: "Because of my attentiveness to other women on the show, my wife told me I ought to get a divorce and settle down...
...divorce, charged that her physician husband set up a written system of household rules, imposing fines on her of $5 if she failed to awaken him in the morning, $2 for not having coffee ready on time (and $5 for complaining), $5 for failing to cook supper any day except Sunday, $2 for not cooking it well, $5 for complaining about having to cook, $5 for not having their child in bed and the TV set off by 9:30 p.m., $50 for tirades...
...June 11 sober seniors will convene behind Sever to attend Class Day Exercises. Why everybody continues to use the word Exercises is hard to say. Nothing much happens, except everybody gets bored and starts twitching about, hoping a thunderstorm will break and end the ceremonies early...
This was the first varsity win over Penn in three years. The Quakers have an exceptionally strong team this year, with a season record of nine and two. Columbia, whose record is 4-4, has little golf talent except for their number one man, and is playing league golf for the first time this year...