Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keeley Institute advertisement: "Hundreds of ladies have taken the Keeley Treatment for Liquor. They have complete privacy ... the exact degree of privacy which they desire. All lady patients are treated in their own rooms, a physician and nurse visiting them for that purpose. Every courtesy and aid is extended to them by the physicians, attendants and nurses . . . and every effort made to make their visit as enjoyable as possible...
...gradually broken as the "brightest boys" began writing. A morning that had started cool grew increasingly hot and humid. Coats came off and sleeves were rolled up as the "49ers" worked in silence, five proctors quietly pacing between the desks. With tense expressions the boys labored over questions demanding exact, accurate answers, with puzzled, dreamy glances at the ceiling they tried to answer problems involving such ethical things as "truth," "honor," "love," "happiness...
...medium is, it is nonetheless dense enough to burn up meteors by its friction. Like the lower atmosphere it carries electrical charges. Proof of that is the great heights from which the curtains of Aurora Borealis, an electrical phenomenon, hang. If Professor Goddard, or anyone else, can learn the exact nature of that high zone it is conceivable that man will be able to put it to some purpose...
Until 1894 there was no exact method of curing diphtheria. That year the German, Emil A. von Behring, progressing along research lines which Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch had opened, discovered that the poisons which the diphtheria germ gave out stimulated, if injected into an animal, antitoxins in the animal's blood. Such antitoxins, injected into an active case of diphtheria, counteracted the effects of the toxins, cured the disease...
...rays, whether from the sun or from mercury or carbon lamps, prevent and cure rickets, are valuable for general well being. But too much of them can cause deep burns and nervousness. They are suspected as the remote cause of other ailments. It has been impossible to measure the exact amount given off by their source (sun or lamps) and to manage their dosage...