Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sisters and other relatives." To put a brake on this Italian custom and help restore the old immigration pattern, the Cabinet last week adopted an order-in-council suspending the free immigration of Canadian residents' non-dependent relatives from Italy-not to mention the rest of Continental Europe (except France), Lebanon, Israel and Latin America...
...Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas (TIME, May 12). As Obie, the young father, Actor Kerwin Mathews was at first quietly convincing. Later, when Obenauf found himself at 34,000 feet in command of a burning plane, all the rest of the crew except a navigator bailed out-and the navigator dying of hypoxia-Mathews was embarrassingly frightened. He was a phrenetic caricature of the real-life lieutenant, the professional flyer who said when he got home, "You're so numb, I don't think there's any fear at all. You're just numb...
...skill to advantage in treating victims of acute leukemia. Nub of the problem is the fact that the human blood system responds automatically to the presence of foreign protein by developing antibodies to destroy it. This is why skin grafts and organ transplants do not "take'' permanently, except between identical twins...
...With stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain," sighed Friedrich Schiller, and Oscar Wilde added his amen: "There is no sin except stupidity." Both writers had cause for complaint: stupidity, their own or that of others, landed them in jail.* In this head-shaking book, Author Paul Tabori notes that man's incurable doltishness has managed to fill the prisons and crowd the executioner's block with the finest intelligences the human race could produce. A partial list: Plato, Socrates, Seneca, Boethius, Cervantes, Sir Walter Raleigh, Daniel Defoe, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, Verlaine...
...second period was much less onesided, as Dave Bohn scored again for the varsity, while Dick Austenhymer and former Crimson star Moe Baldwin tallied for BLC. But during that period, the varsity's chances were seriously damaged when Lamont left the game with a sprained ankle. Except when Charlie Devens substituted for a few minutes of the fourth period, attacks Bohn, Andy Leaf, and Jerry Pyle had to stay in for the rest of the game...