Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mules never leave their subterranean coal-faced galleries except when their masters, the operators, expect long idleness. When, therefore, it was observed that most of the mulish multitude had been brought to the surface (including the mules of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., whose head, Samuel D. Warriner, is also head of the Anthracite Operators Association), the implication was obvious...
...term as U S President when a man named Walter Platt Cooke, recently come of age, put his legal services in the Buffalo market. He knew Buffalo-it was about the only city he did know. It had supplied his crib, his rattle, his roller skates, his education- everything except an LL. B. degree which he had obtained from across the hills, at Cornell University...
During the past year rents have proved stable in the East, and to a slightly lesser extent in the Middle West. In the South the trend was downward, except in the "boom" state of Florida. In Tampa, for instance, rents have since last March climbed between...
...trek of ambitious realtors, promoters, sure-fire salesmen and other energetic persons to Florida resembles the Yukon rush, except that it is being made despite heat rather than cold. Advertisements of golden opportunities in Florida land appear everywhere throughout the country. The entire country is speculating upon it. Enthusiasm waxes hottest in Miami, where brokers exhaust voices and nerves from 7:30 a. m. to 12 p. m. daily...
Fred B. Smith of Manhattan, explained to the guests-(.bishops, priests, laymen of nearly every country, and of every Christian faith except the Roman Catholic) - that with just such a meal, the U. S. would celebrate Golden Rule Sunday on Dec. 6. By as much as rice and prunes would reduce the U. S. family budget on that day, by so much would Armenia, Syria, Palestine, Greece profit...