Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear of a law by the United States, providing for punishment for those who participate and are responsible for lynchings. The American people, generally, have been for the first time told the truth regarding lynchings, and that they are not caused by the commission of heinous crimes, except in a small part of the total number lynched...
...control production of opium by forbidding the cultivation of the deadly poppy, except for medicinal and scientific usage...
...suppress progressively within ten years the opium-smoking habit by decreasing proportionately the importations of the drug. After the tenth year, importation and production, except for medicinal and scientific needs, are to be entirely prohibited...
...entitled "From Bandit to Governor--And Back", for the last few months have seen him pass unembarrassed through these startling metamorphoses. A few months ago he was named governor of Morocco, with the expectation that he would put down the Mohammedan revolt which has robbed Spain of all Morocco except the seaports. But no, after a few months in the executive turban, Raisuli has returned to an alliance with his nominal enemy, Abd-el-Krim...
...able to don a uniform until the middle of next week, McCurdy, like Slocum, has a sprained ankle which has kept him from practice since the Hebron game. Lane, the third string center, has been troubled with a painful foot all week, and will not be used except in an emergency, today. The other casualty, Oothout, will probably start the game, but he is not yet in good condition...