Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this reason, there has long been doubt that the U. S. Navy could ever force a decisive battle with the Japanese except in areas where it would be at serious disadvantage. For normally the Japanese, knowing the inferior weight of their fleet, would be careful to keep out of mid-Pacific, to fight only close to its own protected bases, where it would have the advantage...
...that event, light vessels of the British, Dutch and U. S. forces operating from the Indies, Singapore, Manila, Guam, etc., would doubtless begin a blockade of Japan. All her seaborne commerce could probably be destroyed except that with China, Manchukuo and Korea. Even that could be harried by submarines. Weakened as she is by her three-year-old war in China, and dependent on supplies and markets overseas, her eventual defeat would be likely. At worst she might hold out until it became necessary to withdraw the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic. If she then took the Indies...
Chief concern of Labor was that thus far its achievements were patchwork, that except for Bevin, its leaders were not strong enough to deal with the firmly entrenched Conservative Party. With parliamentary representation frozen for the duration at 165 Laborites to 370 Conservatives, Laborites feared that the Tories were up to their centuries-old tactics of absorbing the Opposition with the end in view of crushing...
...true, says Author Andrews, that bulls get mad when they see red-all mammals except monkeys and men are colorblind. Many animals can be taught to detect slight differences of shade, but when variously colored disks emitting the same intensity of light are presented, the animals are baffled. Thus a dog sees the world, including his master, in various shades of grey, as in a photograph. But birds, fish and insects can distinguish colors...
...Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal as U. S. boyhood's Hero No. 1. In the films he could never smoke, always married a schoolteacher or rancher's daughter, never dallied saloonwards except to shoot villains fairly. In 1932, rolled on and badly injured by Tony the Wonder Horse, Mix (who was only a fair horseman) retired, was last week advance-agenting a circus when his car pitched at a highway detour, rolled...