Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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make of it,-Except of course, the saints...
...last quarter, Minneapolis gave the bewildered Trotters some of their own medicine by pointedly running in its second team, coasting on to a 76-60 victory. In the Globetrotters' dressing room after the game there was silence except for the sobbing of their long-armed forward, "Goose" Tatum. Down the hall where the Minneapolis Lakers were showering there was a raucous celebration. Said Mikan, who had scored 36 points himself: "This is the next best thing to winning the national championship...
Thin Drippings. Except for some "thin drippings" on cultural subjects, says Lynd the summer curriculum consists mostly of the so-called "professional" courses, which spin out "the simplest teaching procedures into astonishing lists of redundant offerings." Teachers College of Columbia, for instance, gives no fewer than ten course; in Audio-Visual Education, with an eleventh in "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials." Says Lynd: "There seems to be a transcendent mystique of administering anything in the schoo world more complex than a pencil...
Though trickily performed on two stage levels, The Bird Cage is all written at one. It has the arid, conscienceless professionalism of the hack; yet it fails less from being no good than from being no fun. The villain has almost every aspect of villainy except its fascination, the play every ingredient of melodrama except its punch...
...function of the proposed National Science Foundation would be to provide fellowships and scholarships with the aims of advancing research in all branches of science, except those under the jurisdiction of the AEC. The limit of spending under the present bill would be $15,000,000 a year, but presumably the appropriations will be increased if the experiment proves successful...