Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through a Lattice. Among the least emancipated are the uncounted millions of Africa's "Black Moslems." By no coincidence, they are also the least developed politically. In Nigeria most Moslems are so strict they regard the rest of their co-religionists except the Saudi Arabians as backsliding apostates. Women are not even allowed in the presence of a judge; they must speak through a lattice in the wall to a court attendant, who relays their statements to the court...
...Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage. So, instead of playing for the love of Rosie, they were spurred by their pique with Slade-and learned to their surprise that the former Navy football hero had been right all along...
...rift remained until Friday, February 13, 1931 when Bingham and Dr. Charles W. Kennedy of Princeton decided to renew athletic relations between the two colleges in all sports except football. The decision had come as a result of student pressure from both Harvard and Princeton. Football relations were finally resumed and Princeton was scheduled for 1934. The Tigers won the first game, 19-0 and the next one 35 to 0 but the two colleges remained on friendly relations...
...good a teacher as the Exeter faculty member with ten or twenty years experience. He is likely to conclude from this that this graduate student can teach him nothing. He also notices that his grades are not consistently related to any observable quality of his work except penmanship. He therefore concludes that these grades are meaningless and arbitrary. Both theories contain just enough truth to make them a useful raft for his sinking self confidence...
...good-looking, very nervous, extremely impatient with 47, and anxious to get down to live in Greenwich Village... The first [of two plays O'Neill wrote during the year] was inconspicuous, and the latter was labored and stiff. His worst fault, I think, was an ineptitude at dialogue, except when the speakers were raving drunk or profane...