Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. 9--Cornell is the team that every coach in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League except the one most vitally concerned, the Cornell coach himself, picks to win the 1940 league title in the thirty-seventh annual tournament that will begin next month...
...football. It is based on a set-play attack which takes immediate advantage of an opening. But it is a little difficult to absorb without constant practice. The 1939 team did not use it to full advantage until late in the season. The 1940 team might have had it except for a couple of bad breaks which Gullion thinks will cost it the championship...
...hours of patrol, then back to the headquarters hut where they sleep in a big room for two or three hours, then out again for an hour or two and back for four. This goes on continuously, the men never getting out of their clothes, except to take a Finnish steam-bath every couple of days, when they must undress in the snow...
...more important than these exchanges, Sweden promised: 1) to use all her maritime imports for home consumption (except such as may be forwarded to Finland); 2) not to import more strategic raw materials (like copper and nickel) than she did before the war; 3) not to use more than specified amounts of for eign raw materials in manufactures for export (such as telephones). In return for these promises, Britain promised to expedite clearance of Swedish ships through Allied control ports, and offered naval convoy to Swedish trade ships (each Swedish owner to decide this point for himself...
...worst period of history the world has known," he says, "and the job is to keep explaining why, why, why without being a Jeremiah." So Swing tells what's what simply, calmly, right, with no flash-flashes, no calamitous crescendos, no special hallmark of his own except a level, almost hushed "Good night...