Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualified scout never attempts to see a future opponent, except when playing in a game open to the public...
...scouting department has proved its efficiency over a period, of years or even on successive Saturdays of a season, the players place such reliance on it that they devote, except for the last two or three days, hardly any more time in preparation for the big game of the year than for the lesser ones. The player does not have to work out 50 mathematical problems--he is merely given the answer...
...departments of the Union will be available during the recess. The Library is to remain open daily, except Christmas Day, from 2 until 10 P. M.; the Billiard Room from 11 A. M. until 9 P. M., except Christmas and New Year's! and the Barber Shop will render service as usual. Cigarettes and candy will be founds as always at the counter. A convention and two special dinners are to take place in the Union during the vacation and other special functions, or the use of particular rooms for such, may be arranged for at the manager's office...
...executive session, held--as all meetings except the dinner are to be--in the auditorium of the Rand School of Social Science, 7 East 15th street, New York City, featured by an address by Arthur Gleason, Yale, the President of the Society, will open the conference on Wednesday afternoon, December 29th, at 2.30 o'clock. Roger Baldwin '05 and Harry W. Laidler, Ph.D., Columbia, will then discuss the year's activities and the new program of the Society. Reports from a large number of delegates from colleges all over the country will follow...
There are times when Mr. Leacock's efforts to be funny fall a trifle flat, when his satire or exaggeration are too obvious to "get across." Thus "John and I," "The Kidnapped Plumber" (except for a few brilliant flashes) and "Buggam Grange" seem somewhat forced. "The Split in the Cabinet" on the other hand is more successful in its treatment of the English political novel...