Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Council will probably take no action on the new rules except to have them mimeographed so that they can be once again submitted to the consideration of the various undergraduate groups...
From that point on, the situation deteriorated. A hot argument in French, Italian, English and Spanish raged through the corridors. Police were called. Everyone concerned, except the outraged ambassador, who refused to budge on grounds of diplomatic immunity, was hustled off to the local police station. Ambassador Tascherest, convinced that it was a deep-dyed political plot, next day lodged a diplomatic protest with Prime Minister Nehru...
...matter of first intention, at least, the Coca-Cola Co. is not a missionary in the sense, for example, that the Voice of America is. Except in the sense that it is for free trade everywhere it is not specifically trying to spread the American way of life. Its chief and boundlessly healthy interest is in the liras and the piasters, the tickeys and the centavos which it can induce people to plunk down on store counters or drop into the slots of amiable selling robots. In this laudable endeavor, Coca-Cola has been uncommonly successful. It is currently selling...
Strong Bridge. At the beginning, Arthur Adams had never planned to be an educator at all. But in 1921, when the Navy invalided him out (because of poisoning by corrosive gases on board ship), he turned to teaching. Except for three years during World War II, when he served as a top administrator in the Navy's training program, Adams has been working in schools and colleges ever since. Before going to the University of New Hampshire in 1948, he was assistant dean of engineering and later provost of Cornell University...
Author Dobie calls Lilly a "brutal exterminator" of Western wild life who somehow believed hunting to be his "patriotic duty." He preferred to sleep on the ground even when a bed was available, and carried no food except some meal and corn into the wilderness with him. In winter he wore three or four wool shirts at a time; to keep them clean enough to suit him, he merely rotated them from skinside to outside, let the elements launder them...