Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the airplane passed over for the first time, dark clouds above it made the light faintly visible to the naked eye. When the clouds cleared away, the light could not be seen against the starry sky except with the low-powered telescopes. They picked it up easily, like a sixth-magnitude star...
...week: "We must never give reaction a chance to return to Turkey." Within 24 hours after President Bayar spoke, Turkey's legislators by an almost unanimous vote refused to pardon Hodja Boyar. For all Turks who believe in separation of church and state, it was a sweet victory, except for the fact that when police went to escort him to prison, Hodja Boyar was nowhere to be found...
...Dorothy's Rest north of San Francisco, run by the Sisters of the Transfiguration, last week's weekend retreat consisted of 30 men-two schoolteachers, one attorney, two retired, and 25 businessmen. Retreatants maintain silence except for a member selected to read aloud during meals and for private conferences with the retreat conductor. Members are encouraged to read such works as The Imitation of Christ, Evelyn Underbill's Worship, T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. "It seems to me," says Canon Eric Montezambert, "that men are more deeply interested in retreats than women...
...radio dial is bringing listeners in growing numbers to little (5,000 watts) WPAT in Paterson, N.J., and making it one of the most popular stations in the New York metropolitan area. The station's simple yet radical idea: spare the listener the sound of the human voice, except at decent intervals, i.e., no oftener than every 15 minutes through the day and every half-hour in the evening. In between. WPAT. plays carefully chosen, well-groomed music, mostly the massed strings and muted brass of the Mantovani-Kostelanetz style, nothing more popular than show tunes or more classical...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFF for Idaho Power Co.'s Hells Canyon Darn (TIME, April 15 et seq.) will be canceled if Congress passes bill by Oregon Congressman Charles O. Porter to wipe out all fast write-offs, except for new weapons, retroactive...