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Word: excepting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was all, except that before sitting down to a State Luncheon the new President announced his Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: President Inaugurated | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Some newspapers feel the need to inform their readers that 'A young Professor shoots his wife,' as though this was of interest to anyone except the professor's janitor and his immediate relations. Other papers

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Press On! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...absorbed by Nationalism in barely two months! (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Not long after this staggering initial success, shrewd Chiang Kai-shek broke absolutely with the Soviet backers of the Nationalist Revolution, and today no man is oftener reviled and burned in effigy at Moscow than he ? except perhaps Great Britain's gaunt, bemonocled Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...discipline of the Cadets, while at the academy, is extremely rigid. Ten months in the year are devoted to their studies, two of which are exclusively devoted to the study of tactics. They are excluded from all society except that of the corps. As evidence of the rigid discipline and requirements, we perceive by the Register of the Officers and Cadets, that out of 210 cadets who are examined at the general examination in June last forty-eight were found deficient and turned back to recommence the studies of their perspective classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST VISIT OF CADETS TO BOSTON IN 1821 DESCRIBED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTICLE | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...scheme at the Academy takes little account of vacations. Except for ten days during the Christmas seasons of his second, third and fourth years, the cadet is allowed but ten weeks respite during the four year term. The summer months are occupied with camp and other military operations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAD TO WEST POINT IS STREWN WITH BARRIERS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

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