Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University makes no charge for the extra course, except when the undergraduate lacks a course credit because of previous failure. Because members of the class of 1939 have previously aranged their courses, less stringent application of the extra course rule has been made in some instances...
Proprietor Steve Vasilakos of the peanut stand at the White House gates, addressing a group of customers, declared: "Look, all the world is yelling and pushing at each other except here. Here is peace and no fuss. . . . Over there, there are guns. Here there ain't no guns. Here there's squirrels on the lawn...
...Harvard men, except those who have been on High Street, Stratford upon-Avon, Warwickahire, England, are acquainted with the fact that there is an outpost of the University in Europe; namely, Harvard House, in Stratford...
Obviously this plan offers an alternative worth trying. The problem of liquor control is merely a phase of the age-old conflict between individual liberty and the general welfare; and this problem has never been solved except through compromise. Moreover, only through general education can any solution be feasible, for the most perfect theoretical plan can be wrecked on the rocks of public indifference. It is safe to predict that the efforts of the committee, even if not wholly successful, will go far toward solving what they rightfully regard as "one of the major perplexities of our civilization...
...stake of $2,000 for three-gaited horses at the forthcoming National Horse Show to be held in Manhattan in November. Stipulation: the horses cannot have set tails, a fashion which requires cutting the flexor muscles of a horse's tail, holding it in an iron "bustle" (except while in the ring or on the bridle path). Because her donation is $1,000 larger than any other Horse Show prize, Mrs. Gilbert hoped to lure horse-showers away from a cruel fashion...