Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven Martin bombers at an altitude of 3,000 feet attacked the Virginia with 1,100-lb. bombs. Eleven missiles were dropped. All except two fell within 300 feet of the ship. One, the fourth, made a direct hit, sweeping away the basket mast and all three funnels. Within half an hour from the time the first bomb was dropped the Virginia turned turtle and went down, stern first. It was then apparent that severe damage had been done within the hull...
Instead, the immigration authorities decided to surprise the 1,800 immigrants by unexpected humaneness. Except for those who must be deported because of disease or illegal entry, all of the group will be admitted and charged to the quotas of September or later months...
...Stories. The Doll's House deals with a wonderful doll's house given to some moderately well-to-do children. They treasure it?show it off to all their school friends except the little Kelveys, the washerwoman's daughters. Then one day the Kelveys do see it?and are almost instantly scolded away by a proper grownup. But they have seen it. The children in The Doll's House live and breathe?Katherine Mansfield told a little about them but not nearly...
...entrusted to George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft. Despite some slight objection on the ground that it was a political question, Mr. Wickersham succeeded in carrying a motion endorsing the World Court. The motion implied that most Americans favored it. Lord Birkenhead made no reference to politics, except to intimate that in England the prestige of royalty was increasing and that of the Socialist party was diminishing...
...address was a discussion of the differences between the American and English constitutional systems, and he took occasion to point out that in the latter country there was no check whatsoever upon the Executive except by Parliament, while here the judges are masters of the executive" and of Congress." As reported, the ex-Chancellor's speech was neither epigrammatic nor provocatory (as it generally is), but he succeeded in getting several newspapers to take the rather impossible position that the difference between the two systems " is not so great after...