Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Useful accomplishments are just as easy to teach as those that have no utility except the pleasure they give such as 'pat-a-cake' or 'How big is baby?' A number of tricks that a small baby can learn are helpful in keeping him safe and well...
...Harvard law student, with a pretty wife and a little son, Noel Jr.; and To Stanton Hall Wooster-Connecticut Yankee, Yale student and Annapolis graduate, once lost in a wrecked plane in Panama jungles, one of the U. S. Navy's most skilled pilots, with no living relatives except an aunt and an uncle -many a tribute was paid. Said Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, whose own wrist was broken (TIME, April 25) when the New York-to-Paris Fokker monoplane America turned turtle: "Davis and Wooster were my old friends. I am shocked beyond expression. They were brilliant, courageous...
...which are represented on the Commission. . . .* We have always been accustomed to regard women as ministering angels, even though we have hitherto hesitated to endow them officially with wings." Further Motions Carried: 1) The letters "P A N"* were adopted as the airman's code call for help, except in cases of extreme distress, when "S O S"š will be used. 2) The word "aerodina" will be submitted to all governments with the recommendation that it replace the present usage (i. e.: "aeroplane" in English, aeronaut in French, luft-schiff in German, arioplano in Italian, etc.). 3) Aerodinas...
...Gaines, aged 70, had just achieved a half-century of daily commuting over the L. I. R. R. between Huntington and Manhattan (73 miles round trip). Passenger Agent Woodward declared that, assuming Commuter Gaines to have taken the train between his home and office twice daily, except Sundays, since 1877, he had ridden the equivalent of 45 times around the world on the L. I. R. R. For this the railroad gave Commuter Gaines a free commutation ticket, good during the entire month...
Enchantment. Here the situation concerns a group of people stranded during a snowstorm in a country home. They all make believe they are lords and ladies, except the real lords and ladies, who make believe they are servants. Dull...