Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of useless, though amusing, gifts for men, particularly if they are inclined to do a very little friendly betting, a gold piece the exact size and gold content of a $20 gold currency piece, even to being milled around the edge. Instead of the insignia, however, there appears enameled on one side the word 'Head' and on the other 'Tail...
Some time ago (perhaps in TIME) I read that Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry were married in California by a Catholic priest. This ordinarily means that one or both of the contracting parties profess the Catholic faith. Is it possible to obtain exact information as to the time, place, name of Church and name of priest performing the ceremony...
Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London. The newspaper of world's largest circulation in any language, the London Daily Mail has been devoting 16 columns per day to the story...
Early last week, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition prosecutions, conferred in Manhattan with Maurice Campbell, local Prohibition administrator, to settle the exact details of evidence-collection that would ensure airtight cases against the violators. Then, to prevent "leaks," the raiding squad was locked in an office without a telephone for four hours and kept there until specific instructions were issued...
...undimmed moral sight" something of the sort, saying "we can judge our own conduct and motives as we would those of another." The advantages of acting in accordance with this standard, of holding steadfastly to the judgment of the conscience he sums up in the sentence, "just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing to do lends to increase the light, to sharpen the audience of perception...