Word: excepts
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Accessible to three-fourths of the country's population, containing a dozen peaks higher than anything north of Virginia's southern boundary, except Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (6293 ft.), still frequented by Cherokee Indians, the new park will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that...
...University forces will entrain for Ann Arbor, 23 men strong, this afternoon at 3.15 o'clock, determined to give the runners of the Middle West a battle royal tomorrow night. Coach E. L. Farrell hopes to enter two men in every one of the 11 events except the high jump, in which there will be but one Crimson entry
...reduction. New York has a State income tax. Smith spent the entire legislative session of 1925 fighting for a twenty-five per cent reduction. He won it from a Republican majority which opposed it for no very clear reason except that Smith was for it. No further reduction has been possible since 1925. The expenditures of the State of New York have been rising, whereas those of the nation have been falling--more gradually, of late. As against this fact it is fair to remember that a Republican majority has at all times been in command of the New York...
...hampering our civilization. "Social intermixing is very desirable," declared Fairbank, "but the biological fusion of races only the future will determine. The negroes, just as the whites, have one civilization, the American civilization. There are no grounds for the prevalent race prejudice, based on economic conditions of past years, except failure to understand...
Following in the wake of the Leviathan, which has been carrying Freshmen onto the Charles for several days, 13 shells of the University flotilla were launched on the Charles yesterday. Except for a brief row on January 13, the cruise marked the first venture of organized eights onto the river this year...