Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Drive is hidden behind two fences, one of French ash wood staked into the ground; the other of gray brick granite. There is no sign, except a solitary cross located on the bell tower, to indicate the nature, denomination, or purpose of the people gathered within. On one side of the Monastery lies the transit bus yard; on the other, a silent cluster of apartment houses...
Despite the large attendance at Boston rodeos, there are marked disadvantages to holding rodeos here. Besides not having a fully appreciative audience the cowboys have nothing to do for two weeks except a few show appearances in a town utterly foreign to their ranch backgrounds...
Chaos & Turmoil. Principal purpose of the whole campaign is to smear Republican Dalton as an all-out integrationist. and, except in the traditionally Republican mountain counties in the far western corner of Virginia, the campaign has worked. Some of Dalton's aides have quit, and his financing is poor. Today when tall, grey Ted Dalton shakes hands with a stranger and identifies himself, he is generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court...
...publishing academic honors or assigning students to groups according to ability. About half the schools give superior students college-level work. Only one principal bothered to mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When in doubt, give the lower grade...
Present conditions at the Medical School are such that both faculty and physical facilities are in need of augmentation. The fund, however, will include no actual building except for the library. All other building repairs are being done gradually through separate financial arrangements...