Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daily the university is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
Craig also found that the musical structure of the two songs was identical; the melodies being the same, note for note, except to accommodate the new lyric...
Near to apoplexy, last week, was Dr. Hugo Eckener. His Graf Zeppelin was about to sail from Friedrichshafen on a Mediterranean cruise with 28 passengers at $720 per head, when he learned that French officialdom had forbidden him to cross any part of France except at night, and except by way of the mountainous Swiss border. England had recently blocked his passing over Egypt. Cried the heckled aviator: "It is a heartbreaking struggle to achieve anything...
...trucks carried them into Manhattan and they did their unpacking at the little Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. There they gave as their first week's bill Sheridan's A Trip to Scarborough. It was too amateurish to compete with the more polished Broadway offerings−except as novelty...
...they might be true." When Nelson left her to save his country, he asked her to sing for him once more−and there now is heard, apparently issuing from the lips of Corinne Griffith, "You'll Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low." Except for such occasional bathos, and for an effective sound accompaniment of guns and waves, this picture is silent, and the Admiral's orders to his fleet ("England expects every man will do his duty") and his last words to his aide ("Kiss me, Hardy") are shown in written titles...