Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Snapped by the fashion photographer with a young demoiselle, also clad in the taller, slimmer motif except for a certain softness through the bodice to give becoming, feminine lines, the Glamour Boy of Leverett House was theoretically demonstrating how men's clothes are influencing the fall female wardrobe...
...Council exercises its office of student judge and reporter by means of reports on questions which seem significant from the undergraduate point of view. Except when it issues such reports or when it periodically awards small "scholarships" to needy students, the Council is seldom either seen or heard...
...German air attacks on Britain during most of last week were on a smaller scale than the week before. German communiques indicated that flying weather was bad, but except on one night bad weather did not deter the R. A. F. from bombing German factories, freight yards, airports, canals, and forcing all German radio stations to shut down...
...striking fact was that on all except this one issue the leading editors of the country knew their mind and were prepared to give a landslide verdict...
When Britain's plenipotentiaries sat down at Utrecht in 1713 to write an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War to American colonists) they despoiled France's Louis XIV of his important eastern Canada holdings except Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy...