Word: exact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Exact dynamic utterance is expected from the lips of Signor Mussolini. His capacity for being clear amounts to genius. He likes to be clear. Yet he can use weasel words.* The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's great handbook of statesmanly dissimulation, has been studied long and passionately by Benito Mussolini-on his own confession. Last week II Duce explained to U. S. newsgatherers why he has suppressed the liberty of Italian newsorgans. Weasel words fell from his lips, not sullenly, not haltingly, but with bland, urbane facility...
...blood of this man was the Frenchman, the Indian and the Yankee-to be exact: 7/16 French, 1/16 Indian, 8/16 Yankee. Many years ago, when the 19th Century was an infant, a comely daughter came to White Plume, chief of the Kaw tribe of Kansas. She was the great-grandmother of Senator Charles Curtis; she married a swashbuckling young Frenchman named Conville, who had hammered down his stakes near St. Louis. Their daughter married Louis Pappan, a French trader-from which wedlock sprang the mother of the Senator. Captain A.O. Curtis, his father, had come to Kansas from New Hampshire...
...classes will be represented, provided enough wrestlers sign up These are the 115, 125, 135, 145, 158, 175, pound and heavyweight classes. The usual three pounds overweight is allowed in each east. Final matches will probably be run off from Monday, January 9, to Wednesday, January 11, although the exact dates have not yet been fixed...
...father's lapel, but Jacob told him to take it home, press it. When the boy left the store, he discovered that he had lost the flower. How meet his father's ire? At dinner that night he had a carnation in his buttonhole. It was the exact duplicate, in minute detail, of Mrs. McKinley's carnation, which Father Jacob had found. "Michael," said Jacob, who had the original in his pocket, "you're a good matcher." Michael was all Of that. It was he who brought together the pearls of a Philadelphia financier...
Although the expedition was intended primarily as a pleasure excursion, the climbers did some valuable scientific work in mapping the topography and making exact records of the mountain's height...