Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following is an except from The Cornell Sun: "Such an injection of culture in an American university is a refreshing indication in this day of the 'mass production' tendency in the educational methods of this country. Harvard is fortunate, indeed, in being able to anticipate not only the coming of a great figure in the world of literature, but also the adding of a further facility for furthering the ends of true culture...
When this man of eminence found that life at sea served his personal and business aims best, he had a yacht especially constructed for his purposes. (It is not unlike all other yachts except in the matter of strength, reserve engines, large fuel and water-storage facilities, and provides a comfortable, humane habitation for all on board, inclusive even of the sailors. No, there are no "padded decks...
...regular Republicans in the cloture move in order to get revenge on the Southerners who helped to impose cloture on the World Court. In that event a first-class parliamentary wrangle may ensue, but it is hard to see how as an issue anything might come of it except in the solid South...
Reginald Mason, E. E. Clive (from the Boston Stock Company), Eleanor Griffith and others spoke their pieces capably enough. In fact everything was all right except the play. Even that seemed to serve in England. But, unfortunately for those concerned, Manhattan is not London. Probably Boston was only fooling...
...After they had gone some distance we started taking photographs which show clearly the difficulties they were working under. Through the telescopes we could see that as they climbed higher the wind was stronger and snow filled the air. They climbed on up for hours and except for occasional moments we were able to follow them clearly in the telescopes...