Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
...Alps. The modern world calls them Etrurians. They made strong bronze armour, neat wooden-soled shoes; jewelry, pottery and precious plate of a delicacy which has excited the curious admiration of artisans ever since. They worshipped strange gods in weird cypress groves and spoke a tongue which no one, except perhaps the scholar who drowned last week, has ever satisfactorily deciphered...
...feel the influence of a billion dollars of American capital, but American affairs feel the influence of ten billion dollars worth of Canadian brains. . . . At Rochester, 20% of our staff is Canadian, and I remember that 10% of the American Surgeons' Association is Canadian too. In all matters except politics, and particularly in science, the two countries...
...several families one or two such conservers of morals this season also the city would have escaped the hideous spectacle of a disgustingly realistic presentation of debased womanhood. To come into contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper, police department, priest or minister in an effort to stir up indignation against it, is to consent to defilement. This is a matter in which whoever does not condemn, condones, and to condone immorality is a ghastly business for the citizens of any Christian country...
Cramer, Gast and Wood, none of whom could navigate a ship except by dead reckoning, thus set off in the 'Untin' Bowler last week. They landed at Great Whale on Hudson Bay, were held there two days because of bad weather. Next stop was to be Port Burwell, Cape Chidley, Labrador. The silence that ensued left followers of the flight more serious things to ponder than the origin of the name 'Untin' Bowler...