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Word: excepting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government the openings it had counted on. The effect was the same as Sinclair's last trial, which was halted and called off before all the evidence was in, when it was found that Sinclair was sleuthing his jury. This time it was not a mistrial, however. Except for summing up, this trial was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Government lawyers looked dumfounded. The courtroom crowd was silent except for some one who said something about "millionaires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...anybody touch your book except yourself. If you find any one impertinent enough to venture, burn his foreword and drop him into the dustbin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Butt-Letter | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...usual, the sophisticates were wrong. Since the advent of the daughter of "Princess Alice" Longworth, not a single birth, except royal births, has been forecast in respectable papers, throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blessed Event | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...issuing a new Standard Book of Common Prayer, to be presented to the 49th Episcopal convention, next October, in Washington, D. C. The revised prayer manual will omit the word obey from the marriage ceremony and it will contain a shortened form of the ten commandments. In other respects, except for perfection of minute typographical failures as far as is now known, it will conform to the revised Episcopal prayer manual which Mr. Morgan's father paid for in 1892, and which is now used, in elaborate or humble edition, by all Episcopalians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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