Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work. Frequently they do not leave their little room in June until after Congress has gone vacationing, and usually they return to it in the fall long before Congress takes up its more ostentatious labors. In this season of the year they usually have the great Capitol to themselves, except for a few attendants and the ubiquitous sightseer; but last week there were nearly 400 bustling foreigners mincing through the rotunda to the sessions of the Interparliamentary Union in the Chamber of the House...
...before the Court there was no precedent, no regulation covering the contingency, but he voluntarily retired from the bench and did not sit on the case. Chief Justice Fuller, Confederate veteran, the only Roman Catholic Chief Justice, used to remark that he had jurisdiction over the entire U. S. except the Fuller home and family. Justice Brandeis doubtless feels in much the same...
...experts. The experts found themselves agreeing largely with the objecting lines: That although the route would be shorter the present through routes handle the traffic adequately; that most of the traffic of the new route would be secured at the expense of existing routes, thereby reducing their revenues; that except for a slight time-saving to the public on through shipments, the proposed route was likely to produce little except new financial difficulties in railroad finance...
...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...
...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...