Word: exception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Webster's New International permits "papist" as the shortest synonym for Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, the word has so often been used in bitterness that TIME will no longer use it, except when quoting persons who say "papist...
...this the realist has no answer except a sneer, or if he is ultra sophisticated, a gentle smile accompanied by the formation of a perfect ring of smoke...
...Except in expensive editions I hardly ever see a Bible which is made outwardly attractive. Why is it necessary that almost always black should be regarded as suitable for a volume which contains good tidings...
Said President Angell: "The Institute will foster no fads and hold no briefs for theories except those which grow out of thorough scientific investigation. It is believed by those organizing the Institute of Human Relations that the specialization which followed the important scientific discoveries of the last century has done much to advance man's knowledge of human life and the technique for dealing with special phases of it, but that the time has now come for drawing together this knowledge and applying it to the best advantage of mankind as a whole. Man himself must...
Nothing further had come from the Federal Reserve Board except publication of the figures on which its "warning" had been based. These figures showed that in the last twelve months loans to member banks had more than doubled and that Federal Reserve outstanding credit had increased...