Word: exception
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...committee going into stitches over George's testimony and ending up by confirming him. He quit after one unspectacular year in RFC, and settled down again to his private enterprises.* Says George modestly: "My record . . . was the record of a man who had no qualifications for the job except the political patronage of Truman...
...mask was taken off. "The moon was shining bright," reported Nagaoka, "and sitting on a huge rock three feet before me was the man I had come to interview." Not to be fooled, Nagaoka pulled out a photograph of Ito and compared it with the man's face. "Except for the grizzled tired face, the sharp gleaming eyes and the shabby suit," wrote Nagaoka somewhat ambiguously, "the man was undoubtedly Ritsu Ito." But Ito told him precious little in the three-minute interview that followed...
Faced by all these obstacles, the Government moved last week to protect dwindling U.S. cotton reserves-estimated to be only 500,000 bales more than domestic and foreign demand-until next year's crop is in. The Government will require licenses for all exports, except to Canada, will allow none for shipments behind the Iron Curtain...
...husband for a cold, frightened man who dared not risk feeling much for anyone, her sister for a soul-sick shrew who could not control her bad feeling for everyone, her priest for a muddled half-innocent who did not yet know what he really felt about anything except religion. Almost all the people Elizabeth knew dreaded her love as much as they wanted it. Her husband once stormed at her: "I know there are times when it's worse than hating to love as you do-times when you're like a growth running wild, eating...
...society giving degrees. The next move was to make the Annex a college. This happened in 1894. The Massachusetts General Court approved a charter for Radcliffe College, named after Ann Radcliffe, Harvard's first woman benefactor. This charter contained a provision that it could award no degrees "except with the approval of the President and Fellows of Harvard College...