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