Word: exact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sample question: "How many days [until June], 0 Catiline?" The answer (to be delivered in a military manner): "[The exact number of] days and a butt, O noble Catiline, and may the great God in Heaven speed them more quickly by the great Corporal Jupiter, and may the coming days be more joyous, but not for me, sir! May your classes be no soirees, and your sorrows negligible, and on your leave may there be some beautiful femmes, some canoes, lots of skags [cigarets], full moons, and plenty of Coca-Cola; hot darn-but not for me, sir!" Woody seldom...
...danger confronting us, as I see it, is that we will overlook the natural resilience of the economy. If we were to attempt in Washington to see that every manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer got his exact share of released manpower or materials . . . we should get in the way of reconversion rather than speed...
...Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; it will be used to study bombs, shells and rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
...Will Be First? The small number of cars in sight for 1945 dulled the competitive urge among automen to be first. The market was so much bigger than expected production that the exact date of production would not affect the prospect of sales. But some manufacturers were better prepared than others to swing into peacetime work...
...Ailing (neuritis, shingles) Bridegroom Stokowski's exact age is unknown, varies from 58 to 63. In the 1945 edition of Who's Who, Stokowski lists his birth date as April, 1887; in the 1924 edition it was April...