Word: cept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...
...that all its properties remain under British registry. That meant that the U. S. ownership was merely financial, just an investment (TIME, May 17). Great Britain retained control of the vessels in case of war or other emergency and the U. S. Government had no rights over them, ex cept such as might be ceded by a friendly Great Britain...
...proposed Amendment is purely an Enabling Act and therefore does not exempt farm work and domestic duties. These ex- emptions properly belong in the act passed under the Amendment. Ex- cept for work in the sugar-beet fields, and in gardening, children do not suffer from these duties and the idea that they would be prohibited is ridiculous...
...cept in the second round when Mumb's triple and a sacrifice gave the schoolboys their run. Harvard made three errors, but the Crimson infielders gave Booth brilliant support in the pinches...
...keep up large armies. There are also Great Tuchuns?the War Lords? who control groups of Tuchuns. These men are the real rulers of modern China; their word is law; they control the Government and the future. As there is no national army, their autocratic sway is undisputed?ex- cept among themselves. As a matter of fact, the President himself is a Tuchun, for he is the virtual military governor of several districts in the proximity of Peking...