Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton gave a ball before the first Court. First to dance with bobbed-haired Matilda Houghton was Edward of Wales. Chichibu of Nippon, Gustaf of Sweden, followed. Colonel and Mrs. Edward M. House looked on. Present was almost everyone of note then in London except Their Britannic Majesties...
...part of the nineteenth century. Pleasing results were often achieved notably in the country houses in Virginia to which Mr. Jefferson added porticos. The trouble here is one of scale as well as of style. However, so far, there is nothing royalty goal at to end of the Yard except the new President's house, built by Mr. Lowell. This house is well matched in its manner with the oldest buildings and yet has plenty of charm and a character...
After yesterday's time trials for the university, second university, and Freshman crews, today was an easy day on the river for all except the combination crew...
...height commanded but 22 electoral votes, demanded curbing of the trusts, strict regulation of railroads, banking reform, popular election of Senators, an income tax, and cheap money. At the hour of first demand, politicians of the major parties would have none of these issues. By 1917 all except the last had found expression in law. They permeated the political life of two decades and attached themselves to wings of both major parties...
...most of our examinations are adapted to acertain little except knowledge, which tends to promote mere cramming; whereas the tests in the grass school of active life depend rather upon the ability to use information Surely examinations can be framed to measure not only knowledge, but the ability to comprehend and correlate what is known. In short, to test the grasp of a subject as a whole...