Word: exception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employes in the U. S. Civil Service went, last week, a repetition of the standing order against participating, except in private conversations, in politics. The order specified against badges, buttons, stickers, automobile signs or plates...
Representatives of all the Great Powers, except Japan, told the Dutchman that they were "surprised...
...home in Popotla, near Mexico City, with many a friend and with the words: "All my life I have drunk Bourbon whiskey and I haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth-in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean Wars, in the India mutiny, in the Maori insurrection in New Zealand...
Said the New York Evening Post, "Take the fuselage of an ordinary airplane, stick into its sides a pair of garden spades, with the handles into the plane; put on the nose a propeller slightly smaller than the ordinary airplane propeller, and you have the autogyro, except for the pinwheel...
...Except in 17 communities, where telephone engineering requirements forbia...