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Word: exacting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important, most active art auction rooms in the U. S. are the Anderson Galleries and the American Art Galleries, both in Manhattan. Last week, Cortland Field Bishop, the owner of the latter, made a purchase from Mitchell Kennerley, book publisher, connoisseur, and president of the Anderson Galleries. The exact price of his purchase he refused to divulge; almost certainly it was more than $1,000,000. In exchange, Mr. Bishop acquired control of the Anderson Galleries. No real estate, no stock, not even a chipped picture frame changed hands. By buying the Anderson Galleries, Mr. Bishop had merely purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Auction Sold | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...acute observer that a great play had been delivered to the world. Writhing and not always sharply articulate in the labor of his composition, Playwright O'Neill has done no tidy job. Raw life does not arrive that way. Uncompromising, tiny and horribly large, mystic and yet inestimably exact, Strange Interlude sweats blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1928 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races in the United States. Racial psychology, according to Professor Hooton, is not yet definite, but with delicacy of technique increasing, it may be possible to determine exact relations between race, physical stigmats and abnormalities and crime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT DISCUSSED AT MEETING | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

Tomorrow evening the CRIMSON will open its first Freshman competitions. Perhaps it would be well to pause here a moment. Since the earliest CRIMSON days there has always been a certain glamor about the first Freshmen competition which finds no exact counterpart in any of the later contest. It is still an honor to be the first man in the class to make the CRIMSON and although the distinction may make no practical difference on the Board itself, there is a traditional respect paid to the editor who led his Freshman competition. Whether he attains any higher office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CALLS 1931 TOMORROW | 2/7/1928 | See Source »

...which be Mr. exact, Hearst 24, is not part including owner. - one ED. paper

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Hearst & Coolidge | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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