Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probable abolition of General Examinations for the Bachelor's Degree at midyears, making it impossible for students to graduate from the College except in the June of each year, was indicated by the announcement last night that the Corporation and the Board of Overseers have approved a plan to put the further continuance of these midyear examinations at the discretion of the various departments or committees in charge of the concentration fields. Students registered in the departments or divisions which adopt the new plan with regard to General Examinations will thus be prevented form graduating in three and a half...
...where the mercury solidifies after 39° below Zero; up where the air is so thin that one's body feels as puffy as a cloud?sat Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray in the basket of a free balloon. Except for the glass of his goggles he was covered with fur and leather. A machine pumped electrically-warmed oxygen into his lungs. His instruments, he' said, indicated an altitude of 41,000 feet (almost eight miles). This was higher than any man had ever been,* either by free balloon or airplane. The previous record for a free balloon was 35,433 feet...
...maggot--Lueli. Lueli is a youth who is the literary counterpart of the cinematic "Moana". He is lithe, graceful, ingratiating, childlike--and quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book an absolutely unfathomable creature, a gracile dryad, a tropic faun--a maggot. In short, he is a masterpiece...
...ignorance of the fact that Barnum brought Jenny Lind to this country. The Swedish Nightingale was given to the American public as a proof that the sponsor of Joice Heth, the Fejee Mermaid, and the Model of Niagara could also produce some legitimate and more high-hat entertainment. Except for a few financial statements, the story of Jenny Lind is well worth reading...
...live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid that Swift, Fielding, Defoe and many of our other great English novelists would have made a scant living in this state...