Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light cruiser Richmond, one of the ten vessels of that class which are being built for the Navy, a new record for greater-than-destroyer vessels was established. On a measured course off Rockland, Me., the new cruiser made 34.48 knots?or 39.2 miles an hour. Except for destroyers, no ship of the United States Navy has ever developed such great speed. Like the others of her class (Omaha, Trenton, Milwaukee, etc.) the Richmond is 550 feet in length and 55 feet abeam, and carries 12 -six-inch rapid-fire guns. Until now our Navy has been entirely without such...
...ultimate peace offering that the Germans, sooner or later, are bound to make. The propitious moment arrived. France views with no inconsiderable alarm the position at Lausanne and more particularly in Syria, where both Turkish and French troops are glaring at each other with nothing between them except a frontier. The British are endeavoring to align themselves with Italy in forcing an issue in the Ruhr and in insisting upon full representation at a conference with the Germans. The blow is well timed, for France can hardly afford to risk a break with both Britain and Italy. As a corollary...
...CLUE OF THE NEW PIN?Edgar Wallace?Small, Maynard ($1.90). Jesse Trasmere, an eccentric millionaire who made his money in China, is murdered in a vault which has no exit whatever except one door, locked from the inside. The only key of that door lies on the table near his body. The sole apparent clue to the murder is a new pin found on the floor of the vault. Suspicion falls upon various characters in turn?a beautiful actress?a former partner of Trasmere's now turned dope-fiend?Trasmere's valet?and so on. The explanation, when it comes...
...first clause of the contract on the back of the customary Western Union Telegraph Company blank limits the liability of the company to $500, except in case of repeated or specially valued messages. This limitation is valid because the company will assume full liability in consideration of the payment of a special charge, and a sender thus can insure his message if he wishes to do so. Otherwise it would be of doubtful validity...
...America's oldest established daily newspaper," boasts The Globe (New York) in a full page advertisement in other New York dailies. The Globe was founded December 9, 1793, by Noah Webster and has been " published regularly every evening except Sunday and important holidays ever since...