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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...except for these completed heaves, the '42 outfit ran things just about as they pleased. The Yarders rang up 14 first downs to 2 for Worcester. Inability to capitalize on its power to the best advantage kept the score down. This was also the trouble against Exeter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1942 Gridmen Roll Over Worcester 14-12 For First Victory In Two Season As Vander Eb Smashes Across Both Tallies | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Brooklyn, N. Y. > TIME'S paper is still the same. TIME'S type face (except for heads) has not changed; it is still linotype's Old Style #7 set in the same size, 9-point, but in order to improve legibility the lines have been leaded, or spaced out, ½-point wider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

After receiving from Dictator Hitler a shoulder-shrugging reply to his first appeal for negotiations to continue, the President caused the 54 head U. S. diplomats accredited to a foreign country-except the ones through whom copies of the first Roosevelt-to-Hitler appeal had been relayed-to communicate at once to all the various chiefs of state Mr. Roosevelt's belief that an appeal by each of them to Herr Hitler might have cumulative effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Squirrels on the Lawn | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...government ceases to govern. "Today," he wrote, "when doctrines subversive to American constitutional government are being preached and civil authority is often openly flouted, the Army . . . stands firm as the one stable element. . . . The Army of the United States, unlike certain other armies, will never march for any leader except one lawfully appointed and acting fully and lawfully in the interest of all citizens and holding high the Stars and Stripes forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Moseley's Day Off | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...Four decreed that Britain and France immediately join in "an international guarantee of the new boundaries of the Czechoslovak State against unprovoked aggression." This was an historic reversal of British policy, for up to now Britain has not been directly pledged to anything on the Continent, except via her League obligations. This pledge binds her in black and white to Czechoslovakia even more definitely than her unwritten entente binds her to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Four Chiefs, One Peace | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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