Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SWIMMING POOL OVEREMPHASIZE DANGERS OF SWIMMING POOLS [TIME, JULY 12]. 14% CORRECTLY QUOTED BUT [FIGURE IS] UNFORTUNATELY ERRONEOUS. CORRECT FIGURE IS 7% AND INDICATES NO STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT INCIDENCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO USED AND THOSE WHO DID NOT SWIM IN POOL. WELL MANAGED SWIMMING POOLS OFFER NO EXCESSIVE HAZARD EXCEPT IN FACE OF EPIDEMIC OR TO THOSE EXCEPTIONALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO EAR OR SINUS INFECTION. MODERN MOTHERS MAY SING OLD TUNE BUT SHOULD CHANGE OLD WORDS TO ". . . AND PLOP RIGHT IN THE WATER...
...while the civil servants' strike looked serious to everyone except Finance Minister René Mayer, in whose department it started, and who had other things to worry about. When the strikers presented their demands to Mayer, he did nothing at all about it. In fact, he left for his Normandy home to nurse his ulcer...
...last thing Stravinsky now wants to do is appeal to the senses. He has come to loathe most of the 19th Century romantic composers except Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, who "was such a tremendous individual." He regards Wagner and his "heroic hardware" as "shamelessly sensual." Stravinsky has taken up arms in a battle as old as art, between the followers of Apollo (art from order and religiously hard work) and Dionysus (art from ecstasy). Stravinsky has ranged himself on Apollo's team...
Some didn't like the fact that Mrs. Starr continued the local custom of demanding down payments from patients (except in emergency cases), and she has received some threatening letters. Says she: "I can't afford to run a charity hospital ... If I started supporting the indigent Negroes of this town, it wouldn't be long before someone would have to support...
...loved his school, where he personally taught the children of his farm hands; but most other forms of "progress" horrified him-e.g., the novelty of using kerosene in lamps instead of good old fat, the creation of a Russian parliament ("perfectly absurd"), colleges and careers for women (except where "help is needed in large families"), the cleaning up of years of weeds and garbage from around his mansion ("I don't understand . . . We were getting on very well without this...