Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dutch officials of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation said indignantly that their doors were intentionally designed so that the blast of air would make it absolutely impossible for them to be opened in flight, except by the united efforts of two very strong...
...conference of the Nationalist Marshals in Peking last week Feng Yu-hsiang proposed that "all except the best disciplined" Nationalist soldiers should now be disbanded, since victory has been won. The Christian Marshal's worst enemies will not deny that his troops are the best disciplined in all China; and therefore his proposal seemed the week's Perfect Wangle...
...Tortures and carnage culminated in the massacre of 1915 which seemed to justify American intervention. For in spite of unrest, foreign financial investments had reached proportions requiring protection. America took control first of the customs, then of national finance, and virtually all other administration, with "no object in view except to insure . . . firm government by the Haitian people...
...player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed him a ticket to St. Louis. Many ballplayers get their start much the same way; many of them show up again in their home towns after a few months with nothing to show for their trip except a new suit and a phrase, "When I was in the big leagues. . . ." But though Hornsby's beginning was a stencil his career from that time on was not. He played shortstop, then second base; he batted well. He made an enemy, Bill Hinchman, Pittsburgher, and came near fighting...
...mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech and announced his immediate intention of transferring the entire spectacle to another state. "In this land of the free and home of the brave," he shouted, "no one ever got stomach ulcers from dancing . . . every participant except the male member of team No. 7 has agreed to follow me to New Jersey tonight...