Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the rich standards of the Grenadier Guards dipped and swept the ground in salute. Soon the Household Cavalry moved off at a smart trot. Through a lane between applauding hands passed two sovereigns who have little in common except that they both collect stamps...
...feet, did not stop the inhabitants from screening the doors and windows. I will admit the general paucity of mosquitoes, but that was due, not to the elevation, but to the great lack of stagnant water in which they could breed. Unless the President bars all horses, except the "famed" electric horse, from the State Lodge, he would be wise not to tear off all the window screens from the kitchen...
...rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others live and sleep in them. The rooms resemble, except for their fine appointments, the air locks used in excavating tunnels...
...slightest scientific evidence to support the thesis on which the Cunningham treatment rests. As independent investigators have never checked up on the subject (for reasons that are rather obvious-namely, the tremendous expense of the apparatus) there is nothing to support Dr. Cunningham's statements or theories except his own unsupported word.... It is our personal belief that Dr. Cunningham, at any rate at the outset, was perfectly sincere and honest in his belief that he had stumbled on something. As is always the case, however, when some new method of treating human beings is carried out without...
...from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have won the game-except for the mad riding of tall, angular Winston F. C. Guest, who made seven of Yale's eight goals. The final score: Yale 8, Harvard 5. Yale won the championship, chiefly because Mr. Guest had played polo that was fast and sportingly rough enough for international cup matches...