Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seconds there was silence, except for the sound of the gassoon. A sort of taken-aback silence, as though the company did not quite know what was the correct thing to do in the circumstances. Then, as suddenly as the air had been recognized, the whole crowd joined in heartily, magnificently...
...such a division were practical the proposal would be excellent. But the task of separating the studious sheap from the frivolous goals is no small one. No one cares to admit, except possibly to his intimates, that his presence in college is but a conventional period of growth: such, a condition might very well be-true but few will boast of it Whether or not Dr. Park is over-emphasizing a contemporary disease, it is difficult to say. Certainly, in spite of their flippancy, his remarks cut deep, emanating as they do from a man vitally connected with modern education...
...will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there are no "fistic exhibitions", and the champion is left to reflect bitterly on the inconstancy of fortune. No one--except perhaps Mr. Dempsey -- will blame Mr. Tunney for giving birth to the blues...
...Making no substitutions, except when the physical directors of the schools decide that an athlete should retire...
That Princeton should have felt injured as the result of these policies, which lot her future schedule with Harvard uncertain, is unfortunate; but the manner and extent of the break were of her own choosing. A Harvard Lampoon editorial and murmurs of dirty football hardly entered into the situation except as the former furnished a convenient casus belli for the Princeton authorities. The breach was inevitable as long as Princeton insisted on being recognized as of equal importance with Yale, not can it be healed as long as this attitude prevails. However, the merits of the controversy are of small...