Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular class schedule will begin on Tuesday except for the Statistics Laboratory which will not open until Monday, September...
...Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill was presented in the Senate last week by Senator Smoot. Two resolutions were offered calling upon the Treasury Department to open income tax reports of corporations. Another resolution directed that the bill be returned to Committee to strike out all tariff changes except those on agricultural products. Then the Senate agreed to get down seriously to arguing four days later, and meantime took a rest. The lineup showed three groups: 1) The regular Republicans, supposedly in favor of plenty of tariff of all kinds. 2) The group of Midwestern, more or less insurgent...
...Overseer Voliva nonetheless operates one of the most powerful broadcasting stations in the U. S. He explains: ''Our radio station is a matter between God and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church. It was conceived and born in prayer." Despite its solvency, Zion City remains unattractive. The houses, except for Overseer Voliva's rococo mansion, are low and cheap. The streets are dusty, with incredibly deep thank-you-ma'ams. A monster billboard warns transients to obey the laws of Zion or begone...
Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. Except for brief electrical storms, navigation was simple for Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann on the Grafs final 5,300 miles from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. He kept lookout for the lost Swiss flyers (TIME, Sept. 2) and detoured over Santander, Spain, to salute King Alfonso and Queen Victoria. This detour was a prudent courtesy, because Spain is planning a dirigible hangar at Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg...
...towners. It is the only official museum of art in New York City. Last week art circles were stirred by news that Manhattan is to have a U. S. Luxembourg.* Spurred by the fact that in Cleveland, The Hague, Rotterdam, Worcester and all great art-conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition of the sires of today's "modern" art: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir. The committee has leased a gallery...