Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries, first for the powerful "communist" Inca kings, later for their Spanish conquerors, an endless stream of gold flowed to their high capitals from mines deep in the gorges of the Andes. Forced labor was used and few except the conquered Indians and their masters knew the exact location of the mines. Along mile-high precipices, over the backs of peaks twice that height, the laborers toiled with bags of nuggets. Llamas could carry only 100 Ib. through that rarefied air, burros-even though an extra set of nostrils had been punched through their nasal passages at birth-about...
...resident in his day). Ludecke still believes in the Idea; his disillusionment is with the Leader. "Surrendering my being" to Hitler in 1922, Author Ludecke (who had just cleaned up on smart business deals with Soviet Russia) for some time could not find anything about Hitler to criticize except his sloppiness. his frightful hard collars, his heavy dandruff, a habit of munching a sausage during important conferences, for which he was always late. A first hint that his hero possessed deeper faults was when Ludecke found out. by painful experience, that Hitler abandoned comrades who got themselves in jail. When...
...films reproduce the colors of the decorations and academic gowns so brightly that the scene appears to be bathed in brilliant sunlight. There is no impression of rain, except for the numerous umbrellas and raincoats, which look strangely out of place...
Notably among the missing was Yale. No recognition was given the Blue, except that it had "a good eleven and a fine baseball team." Silence smothered Yale's swimming team, shaded last year by Charlie Hutter and his cohorts...
Harvard simply pushed the team all over the field the whole time except for a couple of laspes. It did about three times as well as Army in every department except the score. It made almost three times as many first downs, gained more than three times as much yardage, gained almost three times as much by forward passing, and gained just three times as much by intercepted passes...