Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serve this purpose, a bill known as the Sterling Bill has been prepared. It calls for an increase of postal rates on nearly all classes of mail except first class. A large part of the raise is to be attached to the rates on second class mail-newspapers and magazines-since this class of mail, according to the Post Office Department, has been causing an annual deficit...
...accordance with the theory of the division of Governmental authority into Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, each entirely separate from the other, the Supreme Court makes a practice of rendering no decisions and giving no opinions except in legal cases brought under specific laws and involving specific points. As a result, Congress, when it passes a law of dubious constitutionality, is obliged to step out boldly into the dark...
Rear Admiral Wilson, the retiring commandant, is a man of unusual charm. Under his superintendence the midshipmen at the academy have been allowed considerable more liberty than during previous regimes. Under previous Superintendents, midshipmen, except first class men, were not allowed to go into "town" or to smoke. Admiral Wilson has also allowed more holiday recesses. One of his contributions as Superin- tendent has been a great improvement in the grounds of the Academy...
...everywhere. No one is satisfied with anyone, except, now and then oneself. The educational world is introspective and the criticism of the day is a criticism of impatience. Uneasy folk upbraid one another for not achieving that which the demon of an age of externals longs for but will never achieve-cultured calm, a philosophical detachment...
...easy money, active stock-market speculation, stationary or declining bond prices and reviving industry. The sequence of these phases of the business cycle are familiar to all; the question thus is one of their velocity and probable duration. Moreover, no two business cycles have ever been exactly alike except in their general economic principles; and granted the whole business-cycle theory, elaborate analysis of each given indus-try still remains necessary...