Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Except for the unquestioned integrity and approved patriotism of the incumbent Secretary of State," mused Senator Glass, "who may exactly say that the exercise-of this unprecedented power, totally at variance with any proper function of the Department of State, will not some day be so flagrantly prostituted as to result in a distressing scandal...
...Great-Hearted Joe Forecast's faults. I realize that Joe Jr. won money for keen Harvard business men last week when he predicted Harvard's victory over Holy Cross, though the little rascal didn't give the exact score. He also did well on the other ames except for getting Penn and Penn State mixed up--a natural mistake for a young fellow...
...work in the way he should, the way a conscientious student would do it if he knew the way, showing him the way if he does not know it. Call it the cumulative quiz. Applied to the example it works this way; the course goes on without change except in the matter of the section meeting quiz. The quiz, now a cumulative quiz, will have two parts. Part I, questions concerning the reading assigned for the immediate work; part II, questions on any work previously covered by the course...
Tickets will be issued at a nominal sum of about $.75, and may be obtained in advance by mail from the Union, the money to be enclosed by all except Union members, who will be charged...
...game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that none of the Crimson's rivals--except Holy Cross, which because of its double initials presents grave geometric problems--is very difficult to lay out. What, for instance, could be simpler than Vermont's "V" or Indiana's "I"? Evolutionists also claim that time spent on these fundamentals would enable the band to make a Yale...