Word: except
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...know of no country," Judge Hand concluded, ". . . except Great Britain, where they [the Reds] would have had so fair a hearing...
...future warfare," wrote Dr. Bradford in the New England Journal of Medicine, "there is likely to be no combat zone of any magnitude except for civilian target areas . . . and the number of casualties may be immense. Thus, the number of doctors needed will be very much greater than ever before, and the waste of doctors, improvidently squandered throughout military and naval establishments, idly waiting for action, will be not only inexcusable but insupportable...
North & South. Within the U.S. alone there are striking variations in the ravages of cancer, reported Dr. Harold F. Dorn, chief of the biometrics branch of the National Institutes of Health. U.S. women (except the very young and very old) are more likely to get cancer than men. Negroes are much less likely to get cancer of the skin than whites, but more likely to have cancer of the genital organs. "The incidence rate for all forms of cancer," said Dr. Dorn, "is nearly 50% higher among white persons living in the South than among those living in the North...
Seabright's members made another decision this year. For the first time in its history (except for a three-year wartime lapse), the Seabright Bowl will not be placed in competition this summer. It was not a matter of money; last year's tournament, won by San Francisco's Earl Cochell, easily cleared expenses. The members simply decided that the tournament was becoming too much fuss...
...than designing "inhabited" aircraft. A new model airplane has a pilot on board to correct its maiden errors, and (if all goes well) to bring it down intact for study and improvement. Guided missiles depend on artificial brains which need to be tested themselves, and they are seldom recovered except as a mass of wreckage. To test a new missile by the cut-and-try method of actual flight is expensive not only in money, but also in more precious time...