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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triangular meet that dwindled into a dual encounter when Winthrop defaulted, the Rabbits hung up their first pool victory in two years as they swamped the Funsters 44 to 18, taking all firsts except in the dive and 200 events. Lowell downed Dudley in the afternoon's other meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Win Crucial Meet; Funsters Outbox Commuters | 2/25/1938 | See Source »

Members of the cast, except for the chorus, have been tentatively chosen. Oscar Hausserman '38 will take the part of the punch-drunk pugilist, Beaudegarde Schmaltz. David Glueck '38 will play Lava Lucille, a South Sea Island Princess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "REVOLT IN REVERSE" IS 1938 PI ETA SHOW | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

...Except for minor disguises, says Austrian Author Frischauer, A Great Lord tells the true story of a Polish aristocrat in Napoleonic times. In theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery Pole | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Redheaded, unscrupulous Prince Andreas Rasonski was so ugly that even peasant girls could not abide him except in the dark. His political ambitions he kept hidden for much the same reason. His model was Napoleon; his goal, to trade Polish military support for Polish independence, with himself as king. To this end he had spent ten years ingratiating himself with a powerful Polish Count, whose beautiful only daughter Dzjunka he schemed to marry in order to get working capital. It was a long shot. Dzjunka made no secret of the fact that he gave her the creeps. And Polish noblemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery Pole | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...elected members of the class committee shall be chosen by ballot by the class during the Senior year at an election conducted under the auspices of the Student Council. Any members of the class (except an ex-officio member of the class committee) shall be eligible for election to the class committee. Of the six members to be elected, the three having the largest number of votes shall serve until after the sexennial reunion, and the three remaining shall serve until after the triennial reunion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nominations Made for Six Senior Offices 1939 Album Committee; Vote March 1, 2 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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