Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...TIME called the Boston symphony-except for Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony-"the U.S.'s finest and one of the top four in the world. The others: Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic...
...Philadelphia, nearly everybody prefers the Philadelphia Orchestra. In Boston-and among TIME'S editors-the Boston Symphony is top dog (except, of course, for the NBC Symphony, which is in a class by itself...
...rather imagine that collective expert opinion would render TIME'S sacrosanct judgment subject to question . . . It is very probable that the Boston is not the "nation's finest" (except, of course, for the NBC Symphony, which is in a class by itself), nor is the Philadelphia the "world's greatest"-as it was hailed to be in Great Britain last summer. More likely . . . neither is sufficiently superior to" the other in all departments to warrant being called "THE BEST...
...Said Trolley Conductor Kwan Ping, who supports his family of five on less than $30 a month: "My wages cover only rent for my one room and the very cheapest food. I have nothing for clothing or emergency expenses." Other conductors agreed. Said one: "We have no other intention except to fill our stomachs. Why raise trouble if we could live on our income? . . ." The conservative South China Morning Post editorialized: ". . . their ultimatum has more economic basis than political: it will be agreed that some of them are underpaid...
...enterprising Sioux lay above poking out their rifles from behind many convenient rocks. An Indian is more apt to wear a battered fedora than a war bonnet. "Western Union's" Indians at least spoke Indian, or a reasonable facsimile of it, while "Buffalo Bill's" dog-warriors muttered monosyllables except for a chosen few who spoke fine idiomatic English, converted to Indian through the deletion of a few conjunctions and the elimination of a few tenses. If a Western is not accurate, it is apt to be ludicrous...