Word: exception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without an added expense to you, except for envelope openers, you can make TIMERS take a real live interest in their magazine...
Maryland. Except in the city of Baltimore, registration is permanent. Baltimoreans must register every two years. Boards of registry sit from about Sept. 25 to about...
They have soared in throbbing airplanes more than 1,500 miles over Congo swamps, diamond mines, cannibals, palm oil factories, pigmies, ivory hunters, and savage, slimy, man-eating crocodiles. Also Their Majesties sailed a thousand miles down the mighty River Congo (larger than any other except the Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows...
Good President Hainisch, snowy of beard, kindly of eye, fancier of prize cows (TIME, April 2) has little to do except sign bills and graciously conduct state functions. In bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology...
...Pigeon Hill in Rockport, Mass., there stands a house. In the house-very much in the house-are 60,000 newspapers. In fact, they are the house (except for a wooden framework). The walls are made out of newsprint, 215 sheets in thickness, waterproofed by varnish. Begun seven years ago, this four-room house was completed last week by Ellis F. Stenman & wife & daughter...