Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since Victor Hugo has any writer exerted a more profound influence upon the thought and writing of his time. Unlike Hugo, however, Anatole France stands not in the role of magi, pointing the way that to others lies hidden. His delight was the unrestrained play of ideas. Not partisan, except in the larger service of Truth, he loved to stand aside and give every idea its inning, while with characteristic French humor he poked fun at them all. Stimulating and suggestive to individual thought, he was a true reflection of his age, and his age in turn...
...make them wriggle. Showers of fire, bubbling pitch, blood-stained harpies are industriously pitch-forked together for the discomfiture of most of the prominent sinners of History. It is all supposed to be the dream of a very wicked business man who fell asleep over a copy of Dante. Except for sinners who have the misfortune to be selfconscious, the film is respectfully recommended...
Yale chastened the North Carolina "Tar Heels" 27 to 0, rather clumsily except when forward-passing...
When asked if the Labor party in England could be compared with the La Follette Wheeler party in America, Professor Abbott said that the complications were so different that no direct comparison could be made, except in the seeming tendency of the Laborite vote to take strength chiefly from the Liberals...
...Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, of which Professor R. B. Merriman '96 is chairman, announces that the award will be made ordinarily in May, and that within a year the winner is to use the money in the purchase of books of any description except current fiction...