Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...
...such a state of affairs are legion, but the thought is no less valid. The American student is constantly arriving at a larger estimation of his own importance, and there is no reason why this may not expand to the sphere where he will not offer his valuable services except for the return which he would get for a similar effort elsewhere. Very truly yours, R. G. West...
...your example, a tariff of 25 per cent was robbery, but you added that you were ready to give 10 per cent., 15 per cent., 20 per cent., 22 per cent., 23 per cent., or even as high as 24 per cent. Economists are agreed that all protection, except to "infant" industries, means robbery and that the high American standard of wages is not due to tariff. How then, do you justify your willingness to concede as much as 96 per cent of the demands of the steel men? Is the steel industry an "infant" industry in this country...
Since that crisis the Founder has not been troubled by cries of "Paper Shoes!" Today his wares are sold in Chicago by Marshall Field & Co., in Cleveland by the May Co., in New York by Macy's-for $3.94, $3.95 or $3.96, except that de luxe Bat'a shoes sell...
...While, for instance, the whites in the United States have a pitiable birth rate, which would be even lower except for the injections of races which still are prolific like the Irish, Hebrews and Italians, the negroes are extremely prolific. Already they reach the imposing total of 14,000,000 souls, or one-eighth of the total population of the United States. There is a great quarter in New York called Harlem, populated exclusively by colored people. A grave riot in this quarter last July was with difficulty suppressed after a night of bloody conflicts between the police and solid...