Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute address-a loosely knit discussion with few of the great dramatic lifts that characterized the Führer's oratory before he began to discard his street-corner style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from the Aggrandizer...
...without the usual lengthy investigation of his race and ancestry on simple presentation of his mobilization card. To keep open as many hospital beds as possible for wounded soldiers, German doctors were ordered to deliver pregnant women at home rather than in hospitals for the duration of the war, except desperate cases of obstetric complications...
...More Flexible." When Foreign Minister Vilhelms Munters of Latvia alighted in Moscow to face Stalin and Molotov they asked him to sign approximately the same form of treaty as was forced upon Estonia, except that it was "more flexible" from the Russian point of view, provided that an indefinite number of "airdromes" and "bases" shall be leased by Latvia as the Red Air Force and Army may later require, while the Red Navy leases bases in the ports of Libau and Windau. Again J. Stalin demanded exchange of ratifications within six days, but departing Foreign Minister Munters was not simply...
...Waterloo, and the British troops were lined up on parade. The inspecting Seargeant was the terror of every man in the regiment except a certain Sam Small, a Lancashire man. Sam dropped his musket as the Sergeant passed...
After the first week of the Garden show the leading contender for the national cowboy championship was shy, shambling 27-year-old Paul Carney of Galeton, Colo. With 6,178 points (one point for each dollar won during the season-except in bronc-riding events, which merit 1¼), Cowboy Carney was 1,598 points ahead of his nearest rival. Competing in three events (bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding, steer riding), he appeared to have the title in the palms of his tremendous hands...