Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...book will make few happy except for the staunch supporters of the Father; to most other Roman Catholics it will probably appear smug and complacent...
...Leather Workers would get the business in June-so would the United Furniture Workers unless a right-wing faction was successful in gaining control. After that the C.I.O. would be able to boast that it had done almost everything to preserve the "basic American trade union objectives" except to order George M. Cohan music on its picket lines...
Britain and the Commonwealth decided to have a go at the Southeast Asia mess. Last week a group known as the Commonwealth Consultative Committee on Economic Aid to South and Southeast Asia, composed of 70-odd delegates from all Commonwealth nations except South Africa, met in Sydney, Australia, and produced a program. The Commonwealth nations decided to 1) set aside a fund of $22,400,000 for technical and medical aid to the countries of Southeast Asia during the next three years; 2) set up a bureau at Colombo, Ceylon, which will deploy technicians from Commonwealth countries wherever they...
High as any jockey could be on his horse,* Arcaro thought the Prince might turn out to be "one of the greatest horses of our day"-except for his habit of getting away slowly, "in a class with Citation." Next month's mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes, third and longest race in the triple crown, would be a major test. On pedigree, Hill Prince should like the extra distance; his sire, Princequillo, did. Said Arcaro: "We should have clear sailing...
Tolls in Wampum. In that time, except for a brief 15 years around the turn of the 18th Century, there have never been more or less than seven members of the corporation-the president of the university, the treasurer and five life-term Fellows. The corporation began its work in 1650, when President Henry Dunster and six scholars got a charter of incorporation from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thus became the administrative masters of 14-year-old Harvard's single wooden building, its 800 books, and the ?30 to ?40 worth of wampum collected...