Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory was advanced last night for the premature arrival of the Yale luggage except possible nervousness in the Eli managerial staff...
Nineteen twenty-five was a dull year. The whole game was played within Harvard's ten yard line except for occasional punts, but it ended in a scoreless...
...Yale game this Saturday, an almost forgotten type of barnacle has made its appearance on the Square, and this breed is particularly plentiful and annoying this season. The species is rare in these parts, there being no record of their growth here since the Yale game of 1931, except in a few isolated instances. They are individually known as barnacles-on-society, and commonly referred to as "scalpers," but somewhat longer terms have sometimes been applied to them by rougher company. They are no relation to the Indians who roamed the plains of yore, although their methods have some points...
...attitude toward the Yale game is concerned, this is a typical Harvard grid season. All will be forgiven and forgotten, all except the 34-6 Princeton trouncing, if the Elis are taken into camp: A whole lot of accounts can be gloriously settled by defeating Clint Frank and his cohorts this Saturday, and every single person connected with the Varsity squad, from Dick Harlow to the Freshman managerial candidates, are keenly aware of every one. To list just a few: Harlow hasn't seen a Yale victory since his arrival in Cambridge, there hasn't been a Yale victory since...
...Sanford, white Georgia native, 27 years a sharecropper on various Emanuel County farms, once "made enough to buy two beds, half-a-dozen chairs, a dresser, a washstand, and the kitchen stove. An-other time he made enough to buy cheaply a second-hand automobile. The furniture has lasted, except for three of the chairs; the automobile did not last. He does not own anything else, except a change of clothes and a few odds and ends. His wife cuts his hair; he pulls the children's teeth when they begin to bother." Last year he made, all told...