Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conn., June 15--Heavy rain and a high wind which whipped up white caps on the Thames kept all the crews except the Harvard Junior University eight and the first Yale boat off the water this afternoon. During the morning Coach Haines took his University boat for a six-mile paddle, starting upstream. On the way back the first Crimson boat went over the two-mile course at a fairly low stroke. Captain Winthrop kept the beat between...
...accounts; who at 41 was a multi-millionaire and, having got into politics through the good offices of Will H. Hays and Bernard M. Baruch, was entrusted with 1,442 steel Government ships as chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board. Every thing he laid his hands on (except those ships) turned into money. He has a dynamo of a mind and bovine physical endurance to turn loose upon anything- from a luke warm bean factory to an all-night bridge game- and the current he generates is seldom grounded. Small wonder that lately he has been able...
...members, was "ordered" from college by the Navy Department to its self-appointed training school, with seaplanes and mechanics provided by private subscription. There were no uniforms, no drills, no salutes. There were the "Lieut," the naval officer in charge; the "Colonel," combination chaperon and supply officer, a civilian; except for these two, everybody called everybody by his first name. The team work of a football field took the place of military discipline; but the boys flew, repaired, overhauled and flew again their few machines, until by September there were 28 trained flyers ready for war. Then Trubee Davison, their...
...added a tribute to the late President Roosevelt, who, although Mr. Broun did not say so, apparently was superior to Life and Fate: "The Colonel never reached any great moral conviction except for the Monday morning papers. He was never fool enough to become articulate about public affairs of a Saturday, when his views would have to buck the football games, big fights at the Garden or doubleheaders, as the season warranted...
Myopia opened with two scores in the first chukker, but Harvard countered by scoring first in the second chukker. The University team went scoreless for the remainder of the chukker, and for the whole of the third frame. The hosts scored in every period except the sixth, Harvard's best during which two goals were scored by the Crimson...