Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Queens chosen by each of the 20 arrondissements, or wards, in Paris, will be discontinued. A new plan will be pursued by which each arrondissement will choose a " Bee." From these a " Queen-Bee " will be elected for the whole city. The usual festivities will be much curtailed except for the visit to the President. The Bees are to wear their own gowns instead of having " royal robes " supplied. Girls are to be picked for merit rather than for beauty, as formerly...
...loan of $50,000,000 will be subscribed to next week. The loan will be issued in Treasury bills and can be bought in most of the strong currencies of the world, except those of the French and Belgians. The bills will be redeemable in May, 1926, and can be exchanged for checks on New York or for gold, at the discretion of the Reichsbank...
...events which will comprise the annual winter track carnival of the University next Thursday were announced today. Except for the novice events and the special relay races, the meet is open to all members of the College who wish to compete. Blue-books will be posted tomorrow in Leavitt and Peirce's, the Union, the Locker Building, the H. A. A., and the Freshman dormitories, and all men who wish to participate are requested to sign in one of these books as soon as possible...
...attendance at American universities and colleges for the present collegiate year exceeds past records in all except a few instances, according to a detailed report on 140 approved institutions in the current issue of "School and Society," written by Mr. Raymond Walters, dean of Swarth more College. The increase over last year in full-time regular students was two per cent; in total enrollment (including summer school and part-time students) the increase was 14 per cent...
...record will not be written in golden characters on the tablets of Time. Although Senator Robinson is a democrat, his statement that "no important legislative achievement except bills of a non-partisan nature and except the Fordney-McCumber tariff act can be awarded the Sixty-seventh Congress" is no exaggeration. The passage of the Fordney tariff was not greeted with a universally joyous acclaim. Certain pledges made by Republicans for the creation of a soldiers' bonus have been repudiated along with President Harding's mellifluent promise of an association of nations. The settlement of the British Debt problem, although...