Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volpone. Mosca need not be named in Boston as Alfred Lunt's part; Mr. Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact for the role, Mosca moves swiftly, and used the stage from footlights to lagoon balcony and from box to box. At times his fingers, fitting the gilded carvings of the Hollis side pillars are all that keep him out of several well-known laps...
When it was announced that Renaud had been selected, curiosity and anxiety changed to wonderment. In personality, experience, attitudes, Renaud was reputed an exact antithesis to Swope...
...Likewise, when the spots on the sun were fewest and weakest, the radio reception was best. For the measurement of radio reception we have made use of a superhetrodyne receiver with multiple stage amplification together with a self-recording galvanometer. A local oscillator with controlled output makes possible the exact calibration of the entire receiving circuit prior to each night's observations," Professor Stetson continued...
Politics is a fluid science and so is bookkeeping. Mixed together in unknown quantities the two will generate various reactions, sometimes quiet and invisible, sometimes violently explosive. The final solution usually defies exact analysis...
...balloting the voter must vote for the exact number of men to be elected to each office. A check is to be made opposite the name of one candidate for Permanent Secretary, two for the Permanent Class Committee, seven for the Class Day Committee, and five for the Album Committee. If a voter does not check the required number of candidates for each office, the votes cast by him for that particular position will be discarded, in order to prevent errors in the counting of votes. All ballots in order to be considered must be signed by the voter...