Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest of good will," said the solemn voice on the radio, "the Hoffman Beverage Company feels compelled to make this announcement. It's simply this. All Hoffman flavors have that happy taste except sarsaparilla. We might as well come right out with it. We haven't quite hit that happy, carefree note in sarsaparilla. Now please don't misunderstand us. Our Hoffman sarsaparilla is absolutely dependable. It's trustworthy. It's loyal. But it just isn't what"we call happy. You take Hoffman orange. It's absolutely rollicking. Our lemon is almost...
...world's biggest atom-smashers seldom smash atoms any more-except incidentally. Such mighty machines as the Berkeley Bevatron and the Brookhaven Cosmotron are used chiefly to explore the particles of which atoms are built. Last week the University of California at Berkeley put into operation a special machine for attacking atoms from a new angle. Its cost...
...Hall and the Union building, The University looked carefully into Major Higginson's will, discovered that the benefactor had made allowances for failure of his institution as a club, and promptly named its new freshman dining hall the Harvard Freshman Union. No one was terribly sorry about this development--except one or two recent alumni who grumbled something about their $50 Life Memberships appearing valid only for the life of the Union, not of its members. A memorial for Henry Pennypacker in the Harvard Union posed a few doubts, but officials asserted that Mr. Pennypacker had been "a freshman...
...rules by which we can say that an analogy is one of genius instead of madness, I cannot say categorically that her vision is a phantasy of no essential importance. I can only suggest that for me it has nothing to commend itself over the old truisms except its novelty...
...consequence of his attempted one-man rule, the Commission has almost become a front for its chairman's foibles. Among these are a devotion to secrecy about the dangers of fall-out (except in the exchange of information with Britain, where Strauss was treated like royalty) and a Hoover-like faith in big business. One more side of Strauss' character is his determination to continue testing the big bombs. He is searching for a "clean" bomb, rather than limiting experiments to tactical weapons...