Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...went to the opposite extreme, student life would be regulated by a voluminous collection of rules definitely stating so many cuts per term, per grade group, per subject. Either of these possibilities is undesirable. Our present system of leaving all judgment to the discretion of the instructor is better, except that it often costs the student an important mark to find out how his section man judges...
...going to take my girl," Stifel said. "I don't know very much about her, except that her name is Beverly and I meet her every Saturday morning outside the Washington subway entrance...
...made this course on Emerson and Carlyle so popular through his lively lectures that it was found necessary to limit it to 300 students. Except for his famous lecture on Byron, he was never known to repeat a lecture, and he always left ten minutes at the end of the hour for a question period...
...Except for a small party of close friends and relatives last night, and the numerous messages of congratulations, yesterday was just one more day for Professor Perry...
Embezzled Heaven is the story of an Austrian cook's attempt to win her salvationby"theological craftiness."She would pay for her nephew's clerical education so that, when he became a priest, his grateful prayers would win grace for her sinful soul. Indifferent to her nephew except as a part of her scheme, Teta answered his pleas for money for 30 years. One day she retired, set out to visit him. He was not, as he claimed, the parish priest in her home town in Moravia. After "a labyrinthine meandering through her nephew's long-forgotten...