Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important change in the Covenant was proposed. Article XII* is to be amended. The first sentence is to end "and they agree in no case to resort to war, except in repelling attack." The whole protocol was subordinated to the question of disarmament which is to be thrashed out at an international conference to be held at Geneva on June...
...preacher in England today. It was a Congregational paper (Barnes is, of course, Anglican?equivalent of Protestant Episcopal in the U. S.) which declared that since Dr. John H. Jowett died (TIME, Dec. 31), no preacher has been able to create a queue outside a church-door in London except Canon Barnes...
...could be stored in a storage battery it would drive an electric automobile for about five miles or heat an electric iron for a day. By experimenting with artificial lightning of about 2,000,000 volts, it was found that lightning does not always strike the highest object, except when that object is 2.5% or more of the distance from the ground to the cloud. When the height of the object is 1.1% of the distance from the ground to the cloud, the chances of its being hit are about 50-50. Nevertheless, a man standing is 15 times more...
...This agreement shall continue without limitation, except that any club may withdraw after giving one year's written notice to the parties hereto...
...departments of the University show gains in membership except the School of Landscape Architecture, which has dropped from 39 to 27 and the Theological School which has gone from...