Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since, however, it is not illegal to exhibit prizefight films, the law has become almost a dead letter, except in cases where an attempt has been made to import prizefight pictures into the United States, when a customs inspection can be made. The reason is that if the pictures can be successfully smuggled into a state, the government cannot prevent exhibition. Congress can regulate commerce, but it cannot prevent the showing of pictures any more than it could stop the sale of liquor before the Eighteenth Amendment...
...through the box in front of an electric light. The camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained for exhibition. It was argued that nothing was imported except rays of light, but the Federal Courts made short work of the argument...
...Still, an old-school physician of Baldwin, Kan., in 1874. The first college was opened at Kirksville, Mo., in 1892, and is still the headquarters of the movement. Seven other schools have been started. All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted. The course is three years in length. The osteopathic method uses no drugs and is based on the theory that any disease can be controlled by nature's own remedial agents within the body- blood, lymph and nerve force...
...contemporaries, the New York Tri bune and The New York World, discovered that the American's picture was a fake. They printed side by side with the "Telegraphoto" a picture taken at Toledo in 1919 when Dempsey knocked out Willard. The pictures were identical in every attitude except for the "doctoring" of a few details and putting a Gibbons head on Willard. Under the picture the American printed: "Gibbons began to back away from Dempsey's terrific body blows in the fourth. Here he is pressed up against the ropes..." The Associated Press reports said that the only...
...Nile which flows once more unimpeded-except for British flood control...