Word: dictu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many members of the Bureau of International Expositions that Seattle is not a part of Washington. D.C. As world's fairs go, Seattle's is compact and modest: it covers only 72 acres v. Brussels' 500 and New York's projected 646. And, mirabile dictu, it was nearly 98% completed when opened-a boast that few world's fairs have been able to make...
...smacks of Lenin's New Economic Policy), for all its faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...