Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except for the Sackler Museum. The Sackler has an even more inventive way to prevent overwiping. Though no squeezer prevents the toilet paper from breaking as you pull it off the roll, a unique device prevents the roll from spinning around more than once. Instead of one sheet at a time...
Today all nine exclusive all-male clubs--as well as the Hasty Pudding, the Pi ETA, and the Signet--accept members from all classes except the freshmen class. The Harvard Lampoon selects its membership from all four classes...
...faculty of 500 boasts more Harvard Ph.D.s than any other Massachusetts school except Harvard. Teachers are drawn to UMASS by the research opportunities, salaries ($48,000 for a full professor) and the 12,500 highly motivated students, whose average age is 27. Says Senior Bob Carlson, 24: "Students here are hustlers. They're concerned about the community . . . they want things for their families...
...engines put out 3,000 h.p., as much as a diesel locomotive, except that a locomotive may weigh 300,000 lbs., while a top fueler weighs under 2,000 lbs., driver and decals included. (The decals are everywhere. Mostly they advertise sponsors, but they also serve to cover holes where exploding engine parts have perforated the body metal and to announce matters of personal philosophy. A stylized fish on his windshield declares Garlits a member of RACERS FOR CHRIST...
Suddenly the dragster sags, except for the propped-up side of the wing; the wrinkled strut has heated up and stretched out. Kalitta jams another two- by-eight between the struts and throws his weight against this lever to fine tune the straightening. After considerable additional work, he steps back to examine the results, which aren't wholly successful. But then, a normal start tends to lift the opposite side of the car anyway. Maybe a crooked wing will counteract that. He raises his hands in a papal blessing and grins. "The torque'll lean it just right," he declares...