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Word: exactments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make for Manhattan this week aboard the Queen Mary, then recross the Atlantic to attend the Coronation of George VI, successful new U. S. Ambassador to Russia & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies gathered at their Spasso Palace in Moscow last week the flower of the Red Army, to be exact its three toughest plants: Voroshilov, Tukhachevsky and Budenny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Davies & Bolshies | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Talmey prefers to regard Gloro as a "model language" rather than an international one, its chief function as the precise exchange of "ideas of moment," such as the explanation of Relativity to laymen. No word can be formed in Gloro unless the meaning is exact. Thus the English word solution requires three words in Gloro; solvo, act of solving; solvuro, result of solving; solvateso, state of being solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gloro | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Survey finally put it on charts, but not until transoceanic aviation suddenly zoomed into commercial and military importance in 1935 did the U. S. formally claim jurisdiction over Kingman Reef. Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect for a plane base. There Pan American's six-man shore-crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pan American Down Under | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Require competitive bidding on new corporate issues ("The banker may frequently exact charges from the company with little or no economic justification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cynic on Grumpsters | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...more than a year the Times high command has suspected the Hearst Examiner of reprinting its pictures without credit as though taken by Examiner men. Though the Examiner had no Associated Press Wirephoto Service, more than once it ran what looked like exact duplicates of Times Wirephotos of deaths & disasters. So when Times Photographer George Strock showed up at the hospital week before last to snap pictures of Fitts as he was wheeled into the operating room, he noted with interest that none of the Examiners 16 photographers was on hand. Snick! went the shutter of Photographer Strock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Cat-Trap | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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