Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixth Tongue. Emerged one of the professionals from the ship owners' meeting, declared that Mr. O'Connor's $20 would not enable U. S. firms to compete with other nations except Great Britain; would perpetuate the existing difference between wages paid on Government-built boats and those paid on other U. S. boats...
...have sold nearly all my property, including my first home here, Villa Serena, except the new and less valuable home into which we moved last fall. When the remainder of my property is turned into interest-bearing securities, I can reasonably expect to have, for the first time in my life, an income sufficient for the needs of Mrs. Bryan and myself, even when I am no longer able to add to that income by literary work...
...unseeing night, a train steamed across the Polish Corridor* on its way from Berlin to East Prussia. Between the German town of Stargard and the Polish town of Dirschau, the engine ran off the tracks, the two front coaches telescoped, the remainder of the train, except the last two coaches, toppled over a 20-ft. embankment, 25 persons, including 12 women and 2 children, were killed, some 30 others were injured. The accident occurred in exactly the same place as a similar wreck...
...this stage, political interference came, based upon fears of a "Food Trust" as well as complaints by small carriers through the country from whom the packers bought. A long lawsuit followed, during which the packers proceeded to get out of the grocery business except for the sale of meat products. Now the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decreed that the packers can return to their original practises. But the packers are no longer interested...
Little is known of the Princeton twelve except that it has shown considerable strength in its early season contests. Coach Lydeker anticipates the hardest game of the season for his men this afternoon...