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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps these comic scenes are really hilarious; they did not strike me that way, but everyone around me at the theatre was laughing fit to kill. At any rate, Mr. Benthall has certainly made them pleasant enough, with not much help from Shakespeare except for Sir Toby's great line to Malvolio: "Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Twelfth Night | 1/16/1959 | See Source »

Since the war, Bender observed, "I have talked to few applicants who really want to live at home. Except for valid special cases, most young men want to cut the apron strings and live at the College." Bender said he was against forcing these students to commute...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Bender Questions Need For New Commuter Unit | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...Western Allies believe Germany should be reunited through free elections. But Dulles said--apparently for the first time in public--that a free election is not the only method possible. He declined to elaborate, except to add: "There are all kinds of methods...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dulles Hits Soviet Berlin Stand, Mentions Compromise Possibility; Rights Commission to See Files | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

...Gallwey will play in the number two position, followed by Gerry Emmet, Pete Lund, Fred Vinton, Wally Stimpson, Tony Lake, Charlie Poletti, and Kent Allen. All of the Crimson competitors except Emmet and Lund are unbeaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Faces Williams Squad Today | 1/14/1959 | See Source »

Down through the years, as the zing of arrows gave way to the boom of the bomb, the people who live on the roof of the world never complained about all the noise down below. All they asked was to be left alone. Except for the occasional call by Lowell Thomas or somebody looking for the Abominable Snowman, they got their wish. Down below, Hannibal and Hitler, Socrates and Sinatra flashed by; high in the Himalayas, ignorant and innocent of it all, the people went right on hunting snow leopards, dodging devils and waiting for the reincarnation of their uncles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIKKIM: Land of the Uphill Devils | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

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