Word: exact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the comparison is not exact, few could deny that Economics A could be made more palatable. A less careful attitude toward technicalities and a broader study of problems would create the atmosphere which the government of history concentrator now misses, while his knowledge of the field would have perspective of not detail. Supposing the economics major needs the present burdensome facts and formulae he might well be satisfied by a future Economics B Which Will preserve for concentrators only the syllabus, the mathematical analysis and other bits of precision. The present course is poorly suited to a large group...
Thus far, observations during eclipses have confirmed Einstein. But the exact amount that a star's light bends has varied from eclipse to eclipse because of changes in the density of the upper atmosphere. This year, the scientists, with their passion for precision, will study the atmosphere right up to its top, with airplanes and radiosonde balloons...
...cast this work in a less massive and less ambitious mold than some of his other works. But here were the familiar urbanity and affability, and the unadventurous continuation of Romantic tradition, strikingly fused with a wholly contemporary, classical economy, and the accompanying sense of fitness and of the exact point of surfeit...
Lowell clinched the House debate championship last night, downing Dudley when William L. Frost '47 and Frank S. Skowronski '50 successfully upheld the affirmative of the proposition "Resolved, That Russia be permitted to exact reparations from current German production...
...even at its most Middle Western, Russia can go suddenly Middle Eastern. I saw two camels hitched to a hay-cutter of the exact model we use on my farm in New Jersey...