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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday in Hongkew Park. No foreigners except a few newsmen and military attaches were invited. The Japanese community, including Koreans, were the guests. Japanese marines, gendarmes guarded all entrances and gates to the park, kept a close watch. Occasionally they frisked a man. Unfrisked was a Korean patriot who came in carrying what looked like a Japanese thermos bottle slung from his shoulder. (Thermos bottles and canteens are standard equipment for Japanese and subjects on holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...crew 'Heil Hitlered' except me, and sang psalms. . . . Eventually we realized we were sailing north. The captain said we were near Iceland, and later disclosed that he was warned just in time that between Iceland and Britain one British ship was watching every ten miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Clever Boys | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

During a football career that dates back to the days when he played with Bobby Green, last year's Crimson grid chief, on a 130 pound team at the McDonough School in Baltimore, the versatile Senior who will captain the hockey team this winter has occupied every grid post except end and water...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER? | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

Packard styling appears unchanged from last year except for narrower radiators with rounded edges and more chrome grille work. Four lines (two of them brand new) are priced $20 to $100 lower this year at $867 to $6,283. The new 160 & 180 (eight cylinders, 160 h.p.) replace the Super Eight and Twelve. Shop talk: big gains in power-to-weight ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Studebaker's low-priced Champion, Commander and President ($660 to $1,095) have lost almost all exterior fixtures except close-fitting door handles. Trim and neat, the 1940s have new hood locks, optional overdrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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