Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part in a million. Last year two Russians visited William Bowie of the Survey for instructions on throwing 30.000 miles of base lines across the U. S. S. R. to Behring Strait, where they will touch the Alaska lines. The work will be done in five years. Then the exact contour of two-thirds of the earth will be known and the suburban home owner may figure almost precisely how far his plot is from the railroad station and the North Star...
...Panama hurried the Rochester, flagship of the Special Service Squadron. But what U. S. citizens along the Nicaraguan coast could not understand was why these war vessels, as on former occasions of murder and insurrection, did not immediately debark their fighting forces and plunge them into the jungle to exact eye-for-an-eye justice...
Reply: "I do not care to state the exact salary which he pays me, but it may interest you as a newspaperman to know that it is more than three times the salary that the people pay the President of the United States. They don't pay him enough...
...have a rendezvous with Death and then was killed in action with the French Foreign Legion, his family and the last soldier to see him alive, George Delpeuch of New York City, prepared to go out from Paris to plant a cross on the exact spot of his "rendezvous...
Died. Col. Michael Friedsam, president of B. Altman & Co. (Manhattan department store), art collector, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Manhattan some 70 years ago (not even his friends knew his exact age), son of Collector of Internal Revenue Morris Friedsam, he entered at 17 the employ of his cousin Benjamin Altman. In 1913, at Mr. Altman's death, he became president of the store and of the Altman Foundation (philanthropic). His military title was earned as Quartermaster-General of the New York National Guard during the War. His $10,000,000 art collection he bequeathed...