Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order of court and placed in the care of my mother, who was legally separated from him. Since that date my father has known nothing of my life and has seldom seen me. So far as I am aware he never contributed to my education or upbringing except in the form of the alimony he was compelled...
...Main Reading Room of the Widener Memorial Library will be open every day during the vacation except Christmas and Sundays from 9 to 5.30 o'clock...
...English Room will be open from 1 till 10 o'clock daily during the Christmas holidays. After the vacation it will be open daily from 10 o'clock in the morning till 10 o'clock at night, except on Sundays, when it will be open between 1 and 10 o'clock. This room, to which Mrs. Florence Milner, supervisor of the Farnsworth Room, will devote half of her time, contains at present 1,000 volumes, 90 per cent of which are literature. With shelf capacity for almost 2,500 books, considerable additions will be made according...
...this way an observer during the course of the year can see all the stars in the sky except those within 45 degrees of the south pole. These never rise above out horizon. Without working too near the horizon where observations are unfavorable, a person at Cambridge can observe about three-fourths of the sky, and for the most part under very favorable conditions. Stars within 45 degrees on the north pole never set, so that they may be observed as continuously as the Sun permits. The position of the Earth is a good one except for for southern stars...
...once tramped a long trail, then in good condition, with the best of companions, but was impressed with little about the trail except its length. Years later when the storms had again wreeked it, I twice worked through it with axe and cross cut and my trail crew. The first year we broke the cross-cut at the worst place and time, and two of us traveled twenty miles in storm to replace it. Next year in a grueling three days five of us took out over four hundred cross-logs. I really know that trail now and love...