Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's refusal to withdraw her fleet from the Mediterranean leads one to ponder on the exact status of what we have always been brought up to regard as the greatest navy of all time. Never before in modern history has the Admiralty been faced with a situation comparable to that now on its hands. For the first time the power of the British navy is definitely in question. The Mediterranean fleet is far superior to the Italian force in gross tonnage, but the Fascist ships are in an extremely strong position and are vastly more mobile...
November 8 can be observed appropriately "as the birthday of John Harvard, the exact date of which is unrecorded, and can only be guessed at as having occurred some days or weeks before the known date of his christening on November 29, 1607," Mr. Greene explained...
...This was exact. Stanley Baldwin, cutting exactly the figure of John Bull, sounds the note most appealing to Britain's masses, and even when he has bumbled-usually in foreign policy-his air of wisdom, serenity and candor keep him as popular as his evil-smelling briar pipe. To the convention of his Party last week Leader Baldwin promised...
Born in 1873 in Huntington, West Va., Dwight Morrow was frail, large-headed, stocky, suffered from terrible headaches all his life. His father's training in mathematics early gave him exact habits of mind; a badly-set broken arm that impaired his physical development provided another impetus to study. Attending Amherst on borrowed funds, putting himself through Columbia Law School by tutoring and going more deeply into debt, he struggled to get the maximum value from an education that cost him so much. As an energetic law clerk, his salary was increased from $720 a year...
Readers of Mazo de la Roche ought to be warned that Jalna, the current feature at the University, is not an exact reproduction of the book. But for those who can forget their preconceived conceptions of the various characters it is a film both moving and delightful...