Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "I am unable to understand how the Government can escape the obligation to renew the contract. . . ." Dr. Work apparently ignored or failed to comprehend the whole import of what Senator Walsh had said. For Senator Walsh had qualified his view that the option was inescapable, by saying: ". . . except it [the U. S.] treats it [the lease] as void or voidable." Senator Walsh's opinion at that time was tentative. Further investigation of the Salt Creek affair was in store and Senator Walsh further said: "I have not been able to give the subject the study that it ought...
...lively row was on last week. President John Grier Hibben of the University appealed to the county election board; Dean Christian Gauss called on eminent judges; students posted irate placards-all because a local election board had decided that no Princeton University undergraduate was eligible to vote in Princeton except the few whose non-college homes are there...
...constructive criticism as to how this may be done, although you big-heartedly admit that the "Prevention of crime and delinquency..is the surest way of creating social stability" and that "the intelligent have shown a wordy, but not ineffective interest in these matters", you offer no adverse criticism except general mudslinging. Picking on a statement of one who is attempting to help and really serve his fellow men, in which he states that such service is not only of value judged by the service rendered, but also by what the individual himself gets out of it, you call...
...voted on there next month. But at Little Rock a day or so ago, Charles Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, agitating against that law, was arrested for violating a city ordinance prohibiting the use of the name of the diety except in "veneration or worship". He was tried on the different charge of disturbing the peace, and fined for distributing printed material "calculated to provoke a breach of the peace". Rather than pay the fine, he is now in jail serving out $26.40 at the rate...
...pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place, today stands on the campus. In other quarters, Parson Faunce has been more successful. Under his aegis, Brown buildings have increased an hundredfold, Brown endowments a thousandfold...