Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Except in Japan, TIME knows of no earlier use of Tycoon. But as many an oldster recalls, there appeared in 1882 an extremely popular comic opera by Willard Spenser entitled The Little Tycoon...
...churches are more powerful in America than anywhere in the world except in the wilds of Tibet, and such power obstructs intellectual progress...
Confronted by these statements, Crier Woollcott did not seem to care that reputation was at stake. Petulantly he rasped : "It happened. I should not have told the story, except that I think anyone who shoots at birds, even though he's a general, ought to be told...
Last Saturday-proved a classic example of the desire on the part of small college athletic directors to reline the athletic pocket. There were numerous small college teams which came down from the hills, engaged an equal number of big college teams, and returned with little except a considerably enlarged bank balance. The best that they could have hoped for was that rather unsatisfactory conclusion, the "moral victory". A brief perusal of the scores in the Sunday papers shows that few of them even achieved such heights as that...
...infringed is included in Chapter 47 of the General ordinances. It says, in part: "Nor shall any person distribute in a public street. . . hand-bills. . . circulars, or papers of any kind, except newspapers. Whoever violates. . .this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence." Captain Brennan pointed out that Cohen gave out about five hundred circulars, and, construing each as an offence, he should have been fined...