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Word: exceptional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus even though Republicans carried such great states as Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and all New England (except Massachusetts) and the Pacific Coast, and all the Rocky Mountains (except Montana and Colorado) and all the doubtful Corn Belt and radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: FIGURING | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Their wars do not interest U. S. citizens except objectively, for most Americans cannot tell one tonger from another. It is only within the meagre, squalid, Chinese districts that a war constitutes any menace. These are but the wars of laundrymen, waiters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laundrymen 's War | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...winning nine scored in all except the first and last of the six innings, while the losers garnered their five points in the frames in which they held their opponents scoreless. Cutts and Booth did mound duty for the winners while Barbee and Ketchum carried the team P. hurling assignment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGULARS TRIUMPH IN PRACTICE TILT | 4/1/1927 | See Source »

...Except for the man who checks coats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...seems there was once a person who though that football was not a disease, except of sport writers, who thought that "bridge" was over emphasized as well as education, who believed that the Harvard of today is a fairly decent place despite the Liberal Club, the Lampoon, the final clubs, two or three others and the fact that Coolidge is still living away from home, who had a vague idea Boston was more a state of the mind than the mind of a state, who, in spite of his being averse to the traffic on Harvard Square met it half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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