Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney General ruled that it would be legal to apply a 25% penalty tariff on all dutiable German imports, except those proved unsubsidized by the Reich, before releasing them from customs. The Treasury announced such penalties would become effective April 22 and would be adjusted after release to equal the subsidy...
...four rifle bullets into it before it fell. Eight years ago, when he was 18, he accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when he fired a shot over the postman's head to scare...
...suggestion may be offered, it is that the editors would appeal to a larger audience than tthe student Union by going light on controversy, in which little talent has been displayed except by their opponents. The journalistic "sting" is a device that has been worn threadbare by the Progressive's elder brothers...
...main criticism is the tacit assumption of the article that the chief interest of the Economics Department is in teaching students. We do pay a little attention to students, as little as possible generally, and if we pay more than that, the University soon ceases to pay us anything except the attention necessary to get us a job elsewhere...
...manufacturer of his size 37 shoes said that he was "obedient," "bright," interested in Chinese checkers, ping-pong and girls, ate little more than an average man. He was also kind to little children. Dr. Louis Henry Behrens of St. Louis said that he was a normal boy except for his size and his "beautiful hands...