Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 75% of the electorate voted. Every Party lost seats except the Monarchists and the Communists, their gains being 54 and 44 respectively...
...Bowery. One cannot quite believe it. But one feels properly thrilled at the finish when there is an exciting chase through the clouds that transfers the underworld to the upper world. Then it is that active Jack wins in Dorothy Dalton the girl confederate of the gang-and everyone except the airplanes turns out to be a U.S. Secret Service agent...
...long controlled by business men, rather than by educators has, no doubt, some justification, at least superficially. And as far as educational policies are concerned, this criticism is quite just. There is no reason why the average trustee should completely comprehend the advantages of prescribed hygiene over elective biology--except in so far as he may have observed the results on graduates who have fallen into his hands. It is moreover true that the acquisition of wealth promotes a reactionary spirit; the reddest radical, becomes wealthy, turns into the bluest conservative. But modern universities have become great industries--largely devoted...
Toulmin, in the box for the home team, was less spectacular but fully as effective as his rival. He took advantage of his early lead and did not extend himself except when necessary. The Pine Tree staters made only four hits, one more than the Crimson, and nine of the visitors were retired on strikes. All three Bowdoin runs were earned, however, by heavy hitting. A home run to the lacrosse field by left fielder Williams in the fourth chalked up one score. Two more came across in the fifth on a sharp single to right by right fielder Daggett...
...Dartmouth Freshman team will meet its second real encounter when it invades the Freshman diamond at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Except for a game with Yale 1927, and practice games with the Dartmouth nine, it has no record so far on which to estimate its strength...