Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Into a Plattsburg hospital early one morning last week two U. S. customs patrolmen carried a human body, dumped it on the floor, hurried away without giving any information except that they had "found it in the road." The body had been Arthur Gordon, 22, border rumrunner. Great was the mystery as to this shooting. New York authorities started John Doe proceedings. Then from Collector of Customs John C. Tulloch at Ogdensburg came this explanation...
First places only will count in the meet scoring, except in case of a tie in first and then the meet will be decided on second places. A rough chart of performances would indicate that the Americans will get at least six first places, and that they can win on second places. An optimistic chart would give the Harvard-Yale team seven first places and nine second places it follows...
Ticket holders are reminded of the fact that they have pledged themselves not to distribute Class Day tickets to anyone except their friends...
...Tilson moved to strike out both the Hoch and the Tinkham amendments, to restore the original provisions of the Census & Reapportionment Bill. By astute parliamentary direction, the Tilson amendment was adopted and the measure passed by a vote of 271 to 104. The sound and fury ultimately signified nothing, except the sectional antagonisms that lie so close below the House's usually calm surface...
...cramped though that life is, it is also a busy one. Up with the six o'clock-rising mountain eagles, King Zog sips steaming hot Turkish coffee, puffs on a Turkish cigaret, begins his day's work. From then on, except for ten minutes' exercise every two hours, he is at his desk in one of the palaces until midnight. His chief diversion is listening to U. S. phonograph records, played on a U. S. phonograph...