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Word: exceptional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad will be made, according to Coach F. G. Mitchell, although a division into first and second squads will be made after players have had at least a week of play outdoors. Except for R. C. Sullivan '28, who is bothered with a bad ankle, the Harvard diamond forces are complete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE HOLDS FIRST OUTDOOR SESSION | 3/28/1928 | See Source »

Three asses have brayed, and what have they accomplished? Nothing, except that smug feeling of satisfaction that every ass gets when he feels he has uttered something of surpassing sagacity; which feeling he communicates to the world by a certain lazy wagging of his aural appendages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of English 72 | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

...Except for the works of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert & Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, which are totally unlike all other light opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

William Henry Nichols, chairman of the Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., announced earnings of $24,586,872 for 1927 (previous year: $24,072,820). Like every other year except 1924 in the history of the A. C. & D. C., 1927 set a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: More Earnings | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except his name), but he knew Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, and a half dozen Indian tongues. He was the first white man to become a cowboy, the greatest Indian fighter the country ever had. Before he was 50, he had scores of scalps to his credit and many an Indian believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waghl | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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