Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...three-day week. He got little thanks for it. As a West Virginia miner said: "Paper don't cut coal." Said Harry Truman: Denham is on his own. Said Robert Taft: "We didn't intend to give anyone the right to send people back to work-except when there's a national emergency-when no contract exists...
...servants; he himself was apt as not to answer the door. He had never visited his neighbor, Secretary of State Dean Acheson; until a few weeks ago he didn't know that his Cabinet colleague ' lived only a few blocks away. He had no hobbies-"except my grandchildren." He was a man who stood upon his dignity. "If there is anything I hate," he told some subordinates in his department, "it is for people to call me Charlie...
...much undeveloped mineral wealth, all the main strategic raw materials except coking coal, and that may be largely offset by her hydroelectrical potential...
...course, right in asserting that no one has the power to control by legislation the associates of an individual or group of individuals except where the controversy centers around public funds or facilities. And he is beyond any possible shadow of a doubt correct in asserting that the clubs would continue to exclude persons on grounds of race and religion despite any attempt to control such discrimination by means of Councilar bulls...
Chess Player. Dr. Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories is figuring how to make a calculator that can play chess. He thinks that one could play well enough to beat all except the greatest chess masters. Machines are also capable, he thinks, of orchestrating a melody and of making simple logical deductions...