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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...Coal Commission, Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of Commerce Hoover or President Harding intervene," said the press. The Coal Commission has no power that it can exercise except moral force. Secretary of Labor Davis is in Europe. Secretary of Commerce Hoover is in California. The President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Coldness Ahead? | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...When a man of the United States Senatorship calibre arrives at the Russian border he is spotted. He is not allowed to see or hear anything except that which Lenin and Trotzky would have him see and hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Titbits | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Oddly enough, D. H. Lawrence, enbeavered idol of the ultra moderns, leads all the rest in the race for oblivion. His name appears on five lists, while no other candidates, except Henry James (three) and Paul Claudel (three), have more than two supporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ten Dullest Authors Lawrence Number One | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...humorous stories in the past, was afraid that the public wouldn't take him seriously when he wrote of the problems of adolescence and smalltown life in the Southwest. I had met him when his Boon Stop had just been published. He has changed little since then, except in the matter of his literary style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ten Dullest Authors Lawrence Number One | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

Pola: "I can say nothing except that I admire Tilden very much. You must not ask me more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: More Revenge | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

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