Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Craig aren't really generals in the fullest sense, but I have always been led to believe that one George Washington was a full general. You may wriggle out of this apparent error on the grounds that when Washington was general the U. S. proper did not exist except in the form of the loose Confederation of States. To all intents and purposes, however, old George was a full general in the fullest sense...
...bulwarks of the New Deal even unto the last ditch of the Court Plan. But Sherman Minton had not reached the Senate until the New Deal was two years old. Besides, the droll McNutt machine had put Sherman Minton into office while Hugo Black was beholden to no machine except his own, grounded in the Alabama backwoods whence he sprang. His mind made up, Franklin Roosevelt wrote in longhand his long-awaited message to the Senate last week: "I nominate Hugo L. Black of Alabama to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...point, the next closest another point if it is a teammate's, nothing if it is an opponent's. One team may score eight points in one end if all their bowls are closer than any of their opponents'. A tournament game consists of 15 ends, except the final, which...
...professor at Washington's Howard University, uncle of Federal Judge Hastie, father of Charles Hamilton Houston, special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Judge Hastie and Son Houston are the only two Negroes ever to serve on the Harvard Law Review, and except for Dr. Leon A. Ransom of Washington, D. C., the only Negroes to earn Harvard Law's degree of Doctor of Juridical Science. Born in Mound City, Ill. "over 60 years ago," President Houston drives a Lincoln Zephyr, gloried in his last autumn's title, "Chairman of the Speakers...
...delight. Dr. Blair observed with satisfaction that his tongue was so long (14 in.) that he used it to wash out his ears and flick flies from his withers. Congo immediately took to Dr. Blair, who three times a day fed him bananas, cabbages, carrots, sweet potatoes, condensed milk. Except for three rough days, Congo took his food with relish. Normally okapis are browsers. They eat tender shoots from the tops of shrubs and trees...