Word: exact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make it easy. Henry Farman, air pioneer, and half a dozen French army pilots tested instruments that can be used in darkest night or fog, because they make sight unnecessary. Where the pilot has confidence that a clear field lies below, he can trust the new instruments to register exact distances from the ground...
Clearly, Ambassador Morrow takes the large view that it would be futile to try to exact from Mexico the confirmation of "oil rights" to persons whose lands had shown no trace of oil in 1917-when Mexico embarked upon a Constitutional régime definitely conserving future Mexican oil discoveries to Mexicans...
...automatic sprinklers throw out water under any pressure of heat, and incidentally send in a fire call. The exact cause could not be ascertained, according to the Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department. Both he and C. R. Apted, superintendent of caretakers, refused to offer any speculations as to the probable cause of the disturbance...
...Gasquet's work is merely to correct as far as possible the errors of text which crept into St. Jerome's careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible to determine more...
...that at the present day the independent picture does not lend itself, as it once did, to the expression of our more serious and fundamental ideas; in this respect it cannot rival the drama or the written word. At the same time it is felt that mere naturalism--the exact description of objects--may well be left to the photographer or the inferior painter who is entirely concerned with making things "like"--anyone can do it by studying the laws of perspective and by a little practice...