Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...next wandered into the Grand Hall, which looked rather like the concourse of an old-fashioned railroad station except for a balcony around three sides and a built-in organ. There were large exhibits featuring New England buildings and grounds of different epochs ranged along the walls. An entire grist mill had been imported from somewhere in Connecticut: it had a turning water wheel and a rustic sign which read "Terms Cash." People occasionally, we were told, got the idea it was a wishing well and tossed coins into the water under the wheel. Across from the mill, and separated...
...have to be on guard against all isms except Americanism," he said last night...
...Jefferson and Hamilton; each a luminous representative of his own view of life; each essential for the health of the republic; and each forever opposed to the other. It is doubtful it in all their lives they could have found one point of agreement, except the need for American independence. They wore such perfect opposites that to this day most Americans make a cult of one or the other; few are able to do justice to both...
...best of a bad job is all any of us make of it, Except of course, the saints...
Nothing, I think, except flakes of drifting fear...