Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Except for the two classic names. there was nothing to warrant excitement. In the first place, the malt tonic is unpotable. While it contains 3.5% alcohol, it also contains 25% solid. One slimy gulp of it is unpleasant, two are unspeakable, three unthinkable. In the second place, the permits granted were only temporary, and if U. S. ingenuity finds ways of using the tonic as a base for soul-satisfying beer, the permits will be, according to General Lincoln C. Andrews, speedily withdrawn...
Tariff. While the monopoly flurry was in progress, the Deputies still further antagonized foreign capitalists by voting 311 to 39 to increase the import duty on all merchandise entering France by 30%, except in the case of extra parts for agricultural machinery, paper pulp, wheat, sugar, coffee and cocoa...
Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
...over Greece and the plains of Macedonian are dotted camps of these refugees still crowded with destitute widows and orphans for whom there is no work and consequently no clothing except that provided by charity...
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