Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, before the American Iron and Steel Institute, British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard made a speech. He began: "It is a great honor. . . . But, like all honors or privileges-if we except the ancient British Order of the Garter, which Disraeli said he particularly admired because there was no damned merit attached to it-it entails some responsibility." Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments...
...spine, then a segmented back bone, an elongated body, a well-developed tail, five gill slits (two of which later become the Eustachian tubes) ; he resembles in turn a fish, an amphibian, a primitive reptile, a primitive mammal, an ape; he has dark soft hair covering the entire body except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet until three weeks before birth. Occasionally, a child is born with the primitive tail still external (it not having atrophied and become internal as is usual). In such cases, when the child is glad, its tail sticks out straight...
...outside of the classroom and the library there is no common interest to bind the students together. Nearly all colleges place their stamp upon their graduates; the men come here already hardened to the mould, and there is no change in them through the three-year course except that wrought by nature...
...mother did not influence the mortality rate except in the case of the first born, among whom the rate was higher when the mother was under 20 or over...
...Except for psychological factors, there was little change in business conditions during the past week. The continuance of easy money, of hand-to-mouth buying by dealers, of large consumption of relatively stable stock and commodity prices, made for a condition of prosperity without sensation. Except in a few industries, business was good, and most complaints that were heard were to the effect that current earnings were not the best on record-somewhat captious and unreasonable criticism...