Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Powers were received at tea by strict Teetotaler Hitler, and British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson was tantalized by not being able to talk to the Dictator before so many people about anything important. Tantalized Sir Nevile remained for days in Nürnberg, telling every prominent Nazi except Hitler what His Majesty's Government "might" do if actual war broke out. But French Ambassador André François-Poncet got something interesting from the Dictator when Herr Hitler responded to some remarks from the Ambassador by observing: "I trust that no mother will ever have cause...
When, in the opening match of the series, cocky Robert Riggs turned himself into an exclamation point by beating seasoned Adrian Quist (4-6, 6-0, 8-6, 6-1), experts agreed that Australia had little chance of winning the Cup. Except for a brief shock the following day when the Australians took the doubles in a sensational reversal of form, the 9,000 spectators who filled the stands each day saw just what they had expected to see. Budge beat both Quist and Bromwich in routine fashion, clinched the series before the concluding match, lost by Riggs to Bromwich...
...discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...
...faring was last week indicated by the National Industrial Conference Board in a nine-page survey with charts. Its big fact: In the first seven months of 1938 industrial production was lower than for any corresponding period since 1933 but construction exceeded the corresponding figure in every recent year except 1937. And in the second quarter of this year the building lag behind 1937 was cut from...
...children as a 1931 Christmas gift, $35,000,000 to charity, his $50,000,000 art collection to the U. S., vast other sums to favorite Mellon projects like the University of Pittsburgh. At his death only $37,000,000 remained, all of which (except for $180,000 to domestic servants) he willed to his charity outlet, the A. W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust...