Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...your comment, "The trade-in value of British autos was low" [TIME, April 24]: Why trade them in? A Rolls-Royce or a Daimler will last a lifetime, and very little has been added to any car in the world that these two did not have 20 years ago except chrome. Is it that Americans have to keep up with the Joneses, or do average American cars wear out after a year...
...never learned whence these cartoons originated, except that they were from 'some American magazine.' Even to the present day I couldn't find out about them because those who did know were liquidated. However, I chanced to see the January 23 issue of TIME, Atlantic edition, and immediately recognized the cover (Mark III, the mechanical brain) as the work of the same artist...
Town-Site. How had Harry Truman made out? He had talked to 525,000 people in 15 states which would elect twelve Senators and 147 Congressmen this fall. Whether he had helped local Democrats much was debatable (except for Lucas in Illinois and Mike Mansfield in Montana, he had done little plugging of candidates). But there was no doubt that he had done himself a lot of good. He reduces the issues, said the New York Times correspondent admiringly, "to town-size so any dirt farmer can understand them." There were no Republicans aboard to complain "Yes, but how about...
...improve Social Security. Under a bill passed by the House and revised by the Senate Finance Committee, coverage would be extended to another 9,500,000 U.S. workers, including domestics, state and local government workers (on a voluntary basis), employees of nonprofit enterprises and the self-employed (except for ten categories ranging from doctors and lawyers to publishers and engineers). Still excluded: 7,900,000 farmers and farmhands. The new bill would double the present benefits, boosting the average individual payment to about $50 a month and setting a family maximum at $150. To pay for the new benefits, employer...
Earlier this term, a joint Harvard-Radcliffe committee had set up a series of standards for College clubs, which, except for a provision that there should be no more than 20 Radcliffe girls in a College organization, left restrictions about Radcliffe membership completely up to the Annex administration or student council...