Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Final reports for the past fiscal year are not yet in, but preliminary reports indicate that about 330,000 immigrants arrived, and all nations apparently filled their quotas except Danzig, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Esthonia?and all of these except Esthonia filled over two-thirds of their quotas. The great difference between the possible 357,000 arrivals and the actual 330,000 arrivals was caused by the unfilled German quota. Germany sent only 43,000 immigrants, although her quota...
Striking has been in style so long among laboring men that it no longer excites much comment except when it affects some industry in which the public is intimately concerned. But a strike of women exclusively is a novelty. That is what made unusually interesting the operators' strike in the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
...first day found the strike ineffective in Northern New England and only partly effective in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Thereafter the situation eased off in those two states, except in Providence. The telephone Company published advertisements asking the public to bear such inconveniences as might occur and declaring that operators' wages had not been reduced from the war-time peak, that they received two weeks' vacation with full pay each year and other perquisites. The strike appeared to have been broken...
...France will neither modify her occupation of the Ruhr nor evacuate except upon payments from Germany...
...right from Ruritania and around the corner from Graustark. There Heinrich, the inordinately evil and charming Prince, passed his time between sending people he disliked to the guillotine, making epigrams and breaking women's hearts, while Valentin, who had all of George Washington's attributes except his false teeth, clad in a black domino, plotted revolution in a cellar. And St. Luc, the English Prime Minister, was nobly but quite platonically in love with the Princess, and Mercedes, a dancer, was in love with Valentin-and oh gosh, but life was complicated in Neuberg! But if you like...