Word: exception
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...take an active part. From a dimly lighted, peach-colored telephone booth in the reception room of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel, Senator James Byrnes called the White House, formally informed President Roosevelt that he was the Democratic nominee. All day in Washington the White House remained silent except for a statement that the President would address the Convention after a Vice-Presidential nominee had been selected. But as the night session grew bitter, as boos greeted Henry Wallace as the President's choice for a running mate, as balloting dragged on toward midnight, another word was given-that...
...have been accustomed to describe it as the political, financial and cultural centre of the British Empire. Its military geography was generally dismissed with one word, invulnerable. Across its wind-whipped moat-the English Channel-no invader passed to establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland to conquer England. And thrice since then this coast has been seriously...
...including Eire. Initial landings of small units of 1,000 men or so the British did not hope to prevent entirely. But their vigilance was aimed at confining such landings to the beachheads until the British Fleet could come up to cut off the landing parties from all reinforcements except...
...weeks each September that cozy little strip of Long Island between Forest Hills and Old Westbury becomes a paradise for U. S. sport fans. At Forest Hills (except during war years) they may see the world's top-flight tennists, at Westbury the cream of the world's poloists, at Belmont the best U. S. thoroughbreds-and here & there, now & then, the world's greatest golfers...
...monopoly. In 73 years, from a $1,250,000 company in a bitterly competitive world, it has bought and fought its way to a $221,000,000 giant whose service contracts cover all U. S. railroads. Since 1900 Pullman and its subsidiaries have manufactured all U. S. sleeping cars except 15. It also collects all revenues from sleeping and parlor car ticket sales. If any car fails to gross a net sum (normally $9,000 yearly) to cover its share of Pullman expenses (porters, linens, maintenance, etc.) and what Pullman calls a fair return, Pullman keeps...