Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mischa Elman, tycoon among violinists, landed from the Paris, last week, and flung to U. S. newshawks a tidbit: "The Philharmonic of New York, the Philadelphia Symphony and the Boston Symphony are far superior to any European symphonies except the Amsterdam Symphony, which is conducted by Herr Josef Mengelberg...
Entries in the meet are open to all men who played football last spring or this spring, or who intend to play next fall, except winners of the football "H". Medals for first place and prizes for second and their places will be awarded in the 50-yard dash, the 220-yard dash, the mile run, the shot put and the discus throw...
...arbitration treaty which he is negotiating Mr. Kellogg has excluded from arbitration the Doctrine. But in the war renunciation treaty in its present form the United States promises not to emplay war as an instrument of national policy, with no exception in reference to violations of the Monroe Doctrine. Not accepting arbitration in such a case, the United States would be shackled by its renunciation pledge and unable to resort to force except through the weak plea of self-defense, a plea which the unified League nations would probably oppose strongly...
...Broun had done every sort of writing for the World except giving advice to the lovelorn. He had been reporter, book reviewer, theatre critic (before he developed a phobia for the theatre), sports writer, columnist. His whims had upset the World routine; but his stuff had a following. Last August, he came to a stalemate with Publisher Ralph Pulitzer of the World because he insisted on writing very, very pinkish words on the Sacco-Vanzetti case (TIME, Aug. 22). It was not until late in December that Mr. Broun's column again appeared in the World. Meanwhile, he took...
...same time, in Cambridge, Mass., the team of ten Harvard seniors answered the same examination paper (in next year's tilt a Yale paper will be given to both teams). The Harvard men did their writing in a classroom along with 140 other students. The same rules applied, except that the Harvard team was not allowed to smoke. Seven members held scholarships; one, Richard T. Sherman of Algona, Iowa, had been editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson; another, Henry T. Dolan, suffering a fractured kneecap, took his examination in a hospital...