Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strength in Numbers. Since the organized workers of Britain have never before attempted united coercion, it was not generally realized last week how numerous and well coordinated are their ranks. Nowhere else, except in Soviet Russia, is trade unionism so firmly grounded. Last week it was estimated that as many able bodied workers are controlled, as to strikes, by the Trades Union Congress as there are men, women and children in New York City. The unionists operate, in normal times, virtually all the land and sea transport services, the mines, most heavy manufacturing and the building trades. Last week these...
These scar-decked swashbuckling heroes cursed because the Reichstag deputies had just signed a bill providing that German officers caught dueling in future, "except upon the most intolerable provocation," will be dishonorably discharged...
...phonograph records will spill into long summer evenings, and which, in the autumn, the hand-organs will trundle through the streets to burial merits no description. And the words?like the words of "All Alone", like the words of "Remember", like the words of all Mr. Berlin's songs except, possibly "I'm a K. P."?are exactly the words one would expect a waiter in Nigger Mike's Cafe to write, in a trickly moment, on a beer-stained menu, behind the nickelodeon...
There was simple fact in Mr. Rogers' assertion that U. S. universities- he named Columbia, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown and Princeton - discriminate against Jews in accepting matriculants. Polite evasion by those institutions notwithstanding-except in Columbia's case - Jewish undergraduates form an element in the undergraduate bodies which, if it has not occasioned official discrimination, is a subject for much restless discussion and action among Gentile undergraduates, and this constitutes, for the Jews, discrimination of a most definite sort-exclusion from clubs, preference in athletics, elections, etc. It has seemed to many Gentiles high time that the Jews, with...
...University squad, has replaced Field as the team's clean-up batter and has replaced Flood at second base. Cozzens, pitcher and utility man on the Freshman team of a year ago, has replaced Morris in center field, and Nash will toe the rubber in place of Moseley. Except for these shifts the team will face St. Anselm in the same order as it faced Exeter...