Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Except for this Elephant sally, the Deacons had the upper hand the whole game. But the Eliot line held up to the last few minutes of the game. Then Kirkland made a desperate drive, and reached pay dirt with seven seconds left to play. The place kick failed...
...Except for Winthrop, all House votes were fairly close. The Law School cast 347 ballots for Willkie, 291 for Roosevelt. The Business School in a poll a week ago went Republican by the lopsided vote...
...passed by representatives of the people purely as a measure of defense for the United States, and therefore the following clause was inserted: "Persons inducted into the land forces of the United States under this Act shall not be employed beyond the limits of the Western Hemisphere except in the Territories and possessions of the United States, including the Phillippine Islands." [Sec. 3 (o)]. The majority of people supporting the Act would have opposed it without this assurance that it was to be purely a measure of Hemisphere defense...
Reed stated that all work has been finished except the actual printing now in process. "Ever since 1636," Reed added, "the University has felt the increasing need of a telephone directory, especially since the invention of the telephone. Realizing this need in 1936, the CRIMSON celebrated the tercentenary by publishing the first issue...
Last week two advertising agencies lost (and others got) two of the biggest accounts in the U. S. From Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer & Son, Henry Ford took some $4,000,000 worth of business (all his Ayer advertising except radio), split it between two other agencies. Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, which already had the motor-maker's branch and dealer advertising, got the Ford car advertising. To Detroit's Maxon, Inc., which took over the Lincoln-Zephyr account from Ayer last summer went the Mercury account. For Maxon and McCann, this was good news...