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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transfer to Puerto Rico "from time to time" of specific federal functions, "except those which the Federal Government should retain in order to fulfill the nature of this permanent association." (Possible example: FCC functions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Question of Status | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...tempting, in fact, to put the whole thing down as an elaborate joke on those who are prepared to believe that the sun never rises in Mississippi except on a couple of rapes, several lynchings, and a few good murders. In the first twelve pages of No Place To Run two whites and an unspecified number of Negroes die violently...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Squalid Life in Mississippi: The Same Old Tale Retold | 4/11/1959 | See Source »

...cast struggled energetically with their parts, but except for Arthur Papas' amusing role, everyone grew wearisome quickly. Alvarez Bulos, as the king, had some difficulties with lines, but otherwise was deft and urbane. As his daughter, O'Brien Nicholas looked and sang as prettily as usual. Betsy Peterson Spiro, as the first wife, brought off her torch song effectively, complete with sultry advances toward Master Perkins, who was lucky enough to be in the first row. Harvey White and Mai Brigitta Milk handled the Eunuch "without an operation" and the "paradox" as cleanly as possible. Mr. Rinzler, except...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: King Pausole | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...their position, is by doing all the course work thoroughly." To express superiority-or perhaps to achieve superiority-the 'Cliffie will often study harder than her Harvard counterpart. Militant feminism, in Cambridge, finds expression in Rank Lists and Honors. Girls, in this predominantly masculine community, can never attain equality except by competitive methods provided by competitive methods provided by the classroom...

Author: By Pauline A. Rubbelke and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Sexes Battle for Academic Superiority | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

Billy Wilder, the producer, director, and co-author of the script, probably took some sort of commercial chance when he chose a transvestite setting for his sex spoof. Except for occasional shifting of buttocks, however, the usually queasy Boston audience has little trouble transcending its sidewalk morality-so broad is the funny business, so obvious the references...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Some Like It Hot | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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