Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet was conspicuous for the inclusion of MM. Briand and Caillaux. The former is moderate and has seven times been Premier of France. His foreign policy is not likely to differ from that pursued by ex-Premier Edouard Herriot who was his own Foreign Minister, except that he is likely to be firmer on all points...
...with a minority in the House of Commons (as was the case with the last Government) assumed a seriousness out of proportion to the imminence of the subject. Ex-Premier MacDonald reserved his judgment. The extremist, John Wheatley, was of the opinion that the Government should not accept office except with an absolute majority of the House...
...ruined, windows for yards around splintered. The crowd stood still for one ghastly second, then fled pellmell. Amid cries of the wounded and dying the military threw a cordon around the stricken area, filled with poisonous fumes from the exploded pyroxylin bomb. Surgeons, soldiers and members of the Cabinet-except Minister of the Interior Rouseff and Minister of Justice Boloshersky (dead), Premier Tsankoff and War Minister Vulkoff (slightly injured)-rendered first aid to the victims. When the final accounting of the grim tragedy was made, more than 150 persons, including 20 women and 10 children, 12 generals, the Mayor...
...after the trial, she took ship for the North with her trunks, her maid, her little black dog. She was never heard of again, though smugglers still tell a story of how a plundered privateer was found, shivering in the huddle cf the seas, with nothing alive on board except a little black...
...principal change is an attempt to secure so far as possible a complete advance enrolment for each member of the University who expects to return next year. For this purpose, study cards will be mailed to each returning student except in the case of members of the 'present' Freshman class, to whom cards have already been mailed. On these cards a list of the courses which he intends to take next year will be given by each student. In the case of starred courses, which require the consent of the instructor, it is now expected that for the first time...