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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This Woman Business" passes three acts in the agreeable proof of that old psychological fact--you can't win. A six months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: A GOOD WOMAN KNOWS HER BUSINESS | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...both governing boards. Almost all the departments have, with some adaptations, voted to put it into operation at once for all the courses not of an elementary nature. Its object is to create during the academic year two reading periods aggregating seven weeks, in which there shall be--except for Freshmen, for elementary courses and other peculiar conditions--neither instruction in courses nor tutoring. The teaching force will be relieved thereby, and the student will be engaged in educating himself by assigned reading, to which he will be held by subsequent examination. These periods are to be integral part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORT DISCUSSES READING PERIOD | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...Question Two. Lecture delivered at the Manter Hall School last night; not heard by William Demipest, but revealed to him by the man across the hall, whose memory was doubtless inaccurate. Cad! Putting the blame on some one else. Question Three. William Demipest has no authority for his remarks except, possibly...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...need not think that when you made out your examination paper, with the express and unmitigated purpose of flunking me out of college, I did not recognize your intention. Lay not that Battering unction to they soul. Bloody, but unbowed. I could, except for my pride . . . on yet. I have my pride . . . tell you the story of my childhood. You would pity me then. It would rate an A. My father hit me on the head with a paper-weight, one summer by the sea, bluer than a vast, incalculable blue book, gleaming in the sun. Beauty. But there...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

...company properly incorporated in the U. S. but financed and owned by the Russian Soviet Government. Except that it is the Soviets' purchasing agent in the U. S., its financial relations to that government is similar to the relations of the Emergency Fleet Corp. to the U. S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Russian Trade | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

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