Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called me into two Cabinets of two Presidents. By these experiences I have observed the burdens and responsibilities of the greatest office in the world. That office touches the happiness of every home. It deals with the peace of nations. No man could think of it except in terms of solemn consecration...
...182.With the capture of Tientsin following that of Peking (TIME, June 4) the Nationalist flag now flies for the first time over all China except Manchuria - which is not part of "China proper," but lies out side the Great Wall...
...Except for the wit of his gymnastics, his was not an usual case of arthritis. Doctors know very little about the disease. Yet the Romans suffered from it, by the knobby bones of their skeletons, and the Greeks, the Egyptians, even the Stone Age men who lived in French caves...
...that the incident would have been impossible. The House was never troubled by ethical problems except when integrity was obviously the best policy. Metternich made the brothers Barons; they bought and fawned their way into the society of five capitals. But they remained shrewd moneylenders, with the noses and eyes of hawks, speaking and writing an uncouth jargon of many dialects of French, German, Yiddish. Count Corti quotes one contemporary comment upon a Rothschild: "King of Jews and Jew of Kings." Another, better, he omits: "Princes in the parlor and pawnbrokers in the kitchen...
...full four miles at a very low stroke of about 23 or 24. The crew made the distance without a stop and then turned and rowed back without any let up, finishing at a stroke of 42. There will be no more time trials for any of the crews except the Freshmen, who may be tested over the two mile distance tomorrow...