Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This means that all 38,000 U.S. Post Offices will be closed to the public Saturday and Sunday and no mail will be delivered until Monday except that bearing special delivery stamps. The ban on mail deliveries includes newspapers...
...Yale Undergraduate Drama Festival held in New Haven at the beginning of spring vacation was slightly misnamed. Except for a couple of isolated moments, the gathering of some three hundred representatives from nineteen Eastern colleges lacked anything resembling a festive air. Instead, an atmosphere of rather grim determination surrounded the occasion. "If we don't stay on schedule," one handout solemnly announced, "our universe will be reduced once again to chaos and darkness." College drama, it was clear, is not a lighthearted endeavor...
...continue bearing this burden, can we expect them to acquiesce? I believe their reaction to this federal budget shows they are waking up. I believe that, more and more, efficient cotton growers will accept the proposition of a gradual reduction in price-support levels until they lose significance except as what Secretary Benson described as 'disaster insurance'-to be accompanied by complete cessation of Government control over acreage as soon as the present surplus is reduced to manageable proportions. That is the dignified, self-reliant status that proud men want for their businesses...
Another ally that F-M's management is counting on is time. Claiming that Penn-Texas now owes more than $22 million for F-M stock, the Morsemen say that Silberstein has nothing to show for it so far except the prospect of a long legal battle. Moreover, the fight has done Penn-Texas no good financially. While 1956 net income totaled $7,074,000, some $4,846,000 was from nonrecurring items such as the sale of plants (later leased back) to raise cash for F-M stock purchases. The company's true net income (not counting...
...courses in classical history, but they are given at intervals and not generally integrated with the Classics Department. The tutorial program is excellent, but the material covered is necessarily haphazard. Thus many a student approaches his senior year with little concept of what actually went on in classical antiquity except for what he has gleaned...