Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Except for world-championship fights, amateur boxing draws larger crowds than professional boxing in the U. S. Current popularity of amateur matches focuses largely on the Golden Gloves tournaments, originated in 1927 by the New York Daily News and joined by its cousin, the Chicago Tribune, the following year...
...Byrd, famed Arctic & Antarctic explorer. In a setting designed to resemble Byrd's Little America camp, members wearing parkas presented him with a life-sized penguin made of ice. An Eskimo dog wandered around among the tables. Admiral Byrd showed motion pictures of his Antarctic expeditions, revealed that except for the money he made by lecturing he would be completely broke, was "pretty nearly broke" anyway...
...summer. Tilling of the soil is widespread; as a topic of conversation it is universal. It was inevitable that one day from this bucolic Parnassus should come forth an urbane country weekly. This week it came forth: the Connecticut Nutmeg, an 8-page tabloid with no pictures except two large nutmegs on either side of the masthead...
...concentrators the field has nothing satisfactory to offer except course A, on the biological evolution of man from the apes. While at least the first half of Biology D is recommended for this course, it is not necessary. The lectures, by Hooton and Kluckhohn, are clear and interesting, and are illustrated with slides...
...recommended to Seniors only, both being in Logic. Philosophy 9a on the Philosophy of History is a detached course which should be looked into by History concentrators. The advanced courses in the history of philosophy are generally difficult and should not be taken until Junior year, except for 18 on William James and Henri Bergson, and 12 on Plato, which is excellently given by Wild and suggested for Sophomores. Other courses which were especially recommended are 11 on St. Augustine and 15 and 15a on Kant...