Word: exact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Corporation will not vote the bachelors degrees until March, the exact size of the College cannot be accurately determined at present, but the Registrar's Office predicts an undergraduate student body numbering about 5400 when the post-registration shrinkage has finished...
Strange Bedfellows is aimed at the exact opposite of that "fit audience . . . though few" to which the poet Milton addressed his work. It will very likely hit the mark. If Playwrights Ryerson & Clements haven't invented a single thing, neither have they missed a single trick: they even remember to wedge the madam of a bordello into a frightfully genteel tea party. And though the authors are never witty, they have an uncanny sense of what will get a laugh; the secret being that it has always gotten one before...
...looked no farther away than the next customer (one auto dealer even predicted that by autumn customers would be able to "walk in and buy 'em off the floor"). Economists, with the same instinct that causes flying pigeons to wheel in unison, largely and solemnly agreed on the exact date for the interment of inflation. The recession, they said, would come in the spring. As Barron's financial weekly put it: "The 1947 depression, recession, or shakeout, whichever one calls it, has advanced from a fear to a fad. Not to believe in its imminence stamps...
Address Unknown. Little was known about the prisoners in Russia and her satellites, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Moscow last week announced that German prisoners in Russia were being repatriated at the rate of 9,000 a week, but did not give the exact number still held. Said one German prisoner's wife last week: "My letters to Russian officials in Berlin and Moscow remain unanswered. I think they do not know themselves whom they have, and do not wish to admit...
James Duncan Phillips' book has none of the romance and the fresh salt air of Morison's unforgettable work; it is exact, down to earth, sometimes crabbed and partisan. Mr. Phillips is a retired businessman, for 25 years treasurer of Houghton Mifflin, and a local historian, the author of Salem in the Seventeenth Century and Salem in the Eighteenth Century, His prose is as clear and dry as a salary check. He has written what is probably the best history that there is, factual and authoritative, of an American port...