Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge compromise proposals, carried by Republican Leader Tilson to the House Flood Control Committee, insisted upon local contributions of sites for levees and floodways. With equal insistence, the Committee-led by Reid of Illinois, Whittington of Mississippi, Driver of Arkansas, Wilson of Louisiana-would hear of no local contributions except, perhaps, sites for the bases of levees on the main stream of the Mississippi...
Heredity, Environment. That Alfred Emanuel Smith rose from utter poverty and the shelter of a saloon is another current myth. His father, for whom he was named, was a New York trucker of whom little is known except that he worked hard and died young, when his son was 13. The mother, whose maiden name was Mulvehill and who also was born in New York, had seen to it that the boy went to a parochial school. At the father's death, he left school, having reached the eighth grade. Beside his mother he had a sister, two years...
...there is no Klan, except for extraordinary Senator Heflin, and no McAdoo, except as represented by polite Candidate Walsh. There are large obstacles between Alfred Emanuel Smith and election, but so far as the nomination goes, last week, in Smith Week, there was even talk of an acclamation...
Willard Howard '28, on the mound for the winning team, pitched a fine game, allowing only seven hits. The Crimson twirler kept the opposing batters well under control, except for a brief lapse in the eighth, when a single and two walks filled the bases. J. P. Chase '28 mishandled a grounder and let Westcott trot across the plate to score Maine's lone tally...
...stands for "Talbot House", a society formed in memory of the son to Bishop Talbot, an English church dignitary. The society was organized in England during the war with much the same idea as the Y. M. C. A., except that its chief aims were largely religious as opposed to the more functional activities of the American organization. The "Toc H" has gradually branched out until it has now world-wide proportions...