Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are practically no passengers either, and no news except Mr. Kennedy's dread prognostications which were news...
...delay, no substitutes, heavy, meaty, buttery meals in abundance. The Government fell with a thud the moment we arrived in Paris. Conversation at dinner stuck to who would be who next day. All were for Reynaud except Henri Bernstein, who considers him a man of such value that his premier-power should be kept for a tougher time...
Leacock said that the island he was on is inhabited only by a few Scandinavians and a Dutch dancer. It is completely isolated from civilization, except for the one or two yachts which put in each year. The only animals present are wild boars, huge tortoises, and a few mammoth lizards...
Charging Quill with insincerity in his peace declarations, Thomas said in a telephone conversation with Alan Gottlieb '41 that "under no circumstances would I speak from the same platform with Quill except in debate. It would be political suicide...
...wanted a cheap pound. When the decline began, the London Economist suggested extending exchange control over more British products, "strangling" the free pound market "to its smallest possible proportions." Last week the gap between the pound's two prices had had little real effect on U. S. trade except to intrigue traders. More than intrigued were U. S. customs officials. Required by law to consider both prices (since both are now quoted by the Federal Reserve), they could not decide which to use in figuring ad valorem duties...