Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sporting goods and hardware store on Central Street in the quiet little city of Bangor, Me. Proprietor Everett ("Shep") Hurd would not have been at all surprised one day last month when three undersized young men bought two .45 Colt automatics and a generous supply of ammunition, except for one fact...
...read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...
Tide & Devils. In 1923, his first year at Alabama, Coach Wade pushed the Crimson Tide to second place in the Southern Conference, which then embraced all major Southern football teams except those in the Southwest Conference (six Texas colleges and the University of Arkansas). The next three years Alabama finished first. Year after the famed Rose Bowl victory with his 1925 team, Coach Wade received a second Rose Bowl bid-this time from Stanford, and this time he tied one of Glenn ("Pop") Warner's greatest machines 7-to-7. Having thus produced two teams which some experts rated...
...changed coaches almost every year without making any appreciable dent on its neighbors. On Jan. 15, 1931 Wallace Wade went to Durham as football coach and athletic director at an undisclosed salary (reputedly $15,000 plus a share of the gate receipts). That fall Duke did nothing notable except tie its ancient rival, the University of North Carolina, 0-to-0. In 1932 Duke for the first time since 1920 defeated North Carolina (7-to-0). When a controversy over boxing between Virginia and Tulane precipitated the long impending split in the Southern Conference the following year. Duke...
...which Georges Braque took for his province 30 years ago and has never deserted. A big canvas, almost 5-by-4 ft., it hangs on the same wall with a Picasso Harlequin, a stormy Vlaminck meadow, a Matisse nude and a figure painting by Segonzac. All of these painters except Vlaminck are onetime winners of the Carnegie first prize. The Braque painting rather gained than lost by their company. Why this was true few critics and fewer spectators could say in confident, simple words. But confident and extremely simple were the words of derision with which, as in other years...