Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Except for more variations on the menu, little has been done to increase the efficiency in the kitchen. In the handling of such large quantities of food there is bound to be waste, but there need not be as much as there...
After four years of analysis and experiment they found that grain grass contains all the vitamins except D, has 28 times more vitamins per pound than dried fruits or vegetables. Its riches: 23 times more Vitamin A than carrots; nine times more Vitamin BI than leafy green vegetables; 22 times more Vitamin B2 than lettuce; 14 times more Vitamin C than tomatoes and citrus fruits...
...called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress his visual fantasies, thinking in terms of touch, hearing, smell. Handshakes and voices inform him of individuals he meets, except for Mrs. Nance's niece, Sophie Madron, who intrigues him by not shaking hands. He deduces that she is a more passionate as well as a more fastidious person than the others, and soon finds evidence that he is right...
According to Ely Culbertson, more words were printed about the Culbertson-Lenz bridge battle in 1931 than about Lindbergh's flight to Paris or any murder except the Hall-Mills case; and his Contract Bridge Blue Book and its Summary (written by Mrs. Culbertson) are, next to the Bible, the all-time non-fiction bestsellers (1,300,000 copies). Thanks to an incredible talent for cards and for self-publicizing, Ely Culbertson became the most curiously famous...
Altogether the volume is an uncommonly interesting psychological document: touching, somehow admirable case history of an international vagabond, a semi-Dostoevskian, a naïve sophisticate and speculative researcher. It is also a huge chunk of undercured, surprisingly palatable ham. The author is nobody's fool, except perhaps (as he freely grants...