Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just about everyone except Japanese apologists, the reasons why Japan acted when and as she did this year in China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal meshes would hamper China greatly, Japan scarcely at all; 2) Japan saw the Soviet war machine suddenly weakened by Stalin's shooting of its ablest commanders; 3) the Spanish Civil War and Mediterranean mixup have so tangled Great Britain that Japan does not fear today Far East intervention...
...atom. Some are so large that they contain hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of atoms. Although they cannot be seen under the microscope, the giant, complex molecules of proteins are among the most important targets of current research in biological chemistry. Until recent years not much was known about them except that they were very big; that they contained carbon, hydrogen. oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulphur and phosphorus; that in such animal processes as digestion they were broken down by protein-wreckers called enzymes and that they were composed of polypeptide chains which might, presumably, be contorted in any number...
Last week bacteriologists and chemists of the Army Medical School in Washington busily prepared this new preventive. To avoid adulteration they worked in glass cages, sterilized each morning by live steam and ventilated all day by sterile, conditioned air. Before the men entered the cages, which contained no germs except those in test tubes, flasks and 5-gal. demijohns, they changed every stitch of clothing...
Editor Woods philosophically decided that: 1) circus and press are comparable enterprises, except that the circus is "a lot saner"; 2) circus folks are not lowbrow, because he heard no vulgar remarks, little profanity in the tents, because they were eager to discuss such things as the labor situation, which they agreed was worse in Washington than in any other State in the union...
...Except in the harbors of Finland and the Australian grain ports, nowhere else in the world was a sight to be seen like the spectacle last week on the blue water off Newport, R. I. Two oldtime, square-rigged windjammers sailed off together on a voyage. They were bound southeast few Bermuda, 660 miles away. So far as anyone knew this was the first formal match race in U. S. sailing history between two square-riggers, privately owned and under yacht pennants. Prizes were a special trophy offered by Commodore Van Santvoord Merle-Smith of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club...