Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days are long past when the party could exact direct cultural tribute from the U.S. intelligentsia, when anti-Communist writers found it hard to get their books reviewed in the intellectual weeklies. To those much under 45 in the affluent society of today, the Thirties' preoccupation with class struggle and "social realism" must seem as odd as the 19th century's fondness for collected sermons or the debates of medieval theologians...
Headmaster Solarin, who is about 40 (he does not know his exact age), grew up in a family of Methodists. He taught in mission schools, flew as a navigator in the R.A.F. in World War II, earned de grees at the universities of Manchester and London. Soon after he returned home in 1952 with an English wife, Solarin was in trouble. As principal of a boys' secondary school, he was expected to cane boys for failure to attend church. He refused and quit...
...archaeologists at Les Eyzies are excavating with a technique more precise than any ever used at a prehistoric site. They are peeling back the thin occupation layers, one by one, and recording the type and exact location of every artifact within each strata. The archaeologists thus obtain a picture of the distribution of flint tools, animal bones, and other remains, in time and space. They can study how the form of a flint knife, for example, slowly changed during thousands of years. And they can determine, for each period of pre-history, where, within the camping site, such tasks...
...wave: ∙DOLORES WETTACH is lush, Lorenesque, and doubly foreign (her father is Swiss, her mother Swedish); she moved at the age of five from Switzerland to Flushing, N.Y., where her father set up a mink ranch. Now about 24 ("You learn not to be too exact"), Dolores was elected Miss Vermont in the 1956 Miss Universe contest, graduated in 1957 from the University of Vermont with a B.S. in nursing. While she was working as a nurse at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, a sharp-eyed photographer saw beyond her heavy oxfords, asked her to pose. Part of Dolores...
Except for Sullivan (and Hampy Howell, still out with mononucleosis) the team is in perfect shape for today match. When the Crimson left for West Point early yesterday afternoon, Barnaby had not yet decided on his exact line-up but will still use Vic Neiderhoffer at number one. Sullivan played number two against McGill, and his replacement, has not yet been determined...