Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Whoever broke into the coaches' room at the Newell Boathouse. Tuesday night, went away empty-handed, for officials reported that nothing was missing and no damage done except the Jimmying of the trophy-room door...
After alterations on the building are completed all classes in the school except lecture classes will be held in the theatre building. The program calls for complete equipment for the study of scene design and construction and stage lighting. The theatre will serve as an experimental production center for plays written in the classes in playwriting. At least three plays will be produced during the year: The first production will take place before the end of the first term...
Editor Morrison had to bank heavily upon his distinction between an undenominational magazine, as The Christian Century describes itself, and the denominational press. Except for the Wet Catholic journals, most important of which are Commonwealth and America, the denominational press is mainly a Dry bulwark. Prohibition leans hard upon the support of the Methodist Episcopal Christian Advocate (circulation 250,000), the Presbyterian Christian Observer (34,553), and their like...
...mathematician, stick to your muttons. So hints Astronomer Sir James Jeans. "It is true, in a sense somewhat different from that intended by Galileo, that 'Nature's great book is written in mathematical language.' So true is it that no one except a mathematician need ever hope fully to understand those branches of science which try to un ravel universe-the theory fundamental of nature of relativity, the the theory of quanta and the wave-mechanics...
...citizens have never seen a Currier & Ives print; "in the middle 19th Century almost every American home had at least one of their pictures." Subjects were of every variety except the sexy: clipper ships, famed fires, wood-burning locomotives, horse-racing, prizefights, pioneers, Prohibition propaganda, baseball, domestic scenes, deathbeds of the Presidents, etc., etc. Now collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens...