Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told that F.D.R. finally yielded to the hostility of the city bosses who assured him that they could not deliver their heavily Catholic constituencies for Byrnes because he had abandoned Catholicism in his youth and became a Protestant. James Farley recently told me that the true story is the exact reverse-it was the President who ordered the bosses to spread the story to eliminate Mr. Byrnes. As for Vice President Wallace, F.D.R. sent him off on a trip to China...
Wagner believes that his tests could be used by music academies to weed out unpromising applicants, as well as by music teachers to "locate the exact physical shortcoming of a student and work out compensatory techniques." A pianist with a "stiff" finger, for example, could make more use of an adjacent note. Another result of his research, he maintains, is confirmation that the recurrent inflammations of the hand and arm suffered by musicians are the result of overtaxing their native skills-a musical variation on tennis elbow, football knee and surfer's knob...
...April she received unanimous approval of her order to have the rent control administrator grant no increases above the March 1970 rent level "except in exact amounts to meet increased costs." And in the final effort to thwart Corcoran's activities on rent control, she sought in June 1971 to deny a salary increase to Corcoran, to express the Council's discontent with the manager's handling of rent control, which the termed "irresponsible...
...Olmsted was known as a landscape architect. This "miserable nomenclature," as he called it, fretted him; but what else could Olmsted call himself? "For clearness, for convenience, for distinctness," he complained, "you do need half a dozen new technical words at least." The fact that his culture had no exact name for his work is an interesting proof of Olmsted's originality...
...exposure, or yachtsmen timing a flashing light on a dark night. But it could make a considerable difference to scientists calculating the precise landing site of an astronaut, or astronomers studying immense celestial distances which are measured in light years. Most important of all, man will have a more exact knowledge of the limits and the dimensions of the universe of which he occupies so small a part...