Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast stripped of wharves and fishing gear. At sea the quake shook ships. Nine of the 21 cables across the North Atlantic tore apart. Cable repair boats, always waiting for trouble, sped from ports to a point about 900 miles northeast of Manhattan. The breaks were found by exact instruments which measure the resistance of a continuous electrical conductor. Great grappling hooks groped for the cables on the sea floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restore the intercourse of the hemispheres. Every half minute an earthquake occurs somewhere on earth. Great ones powerful enough to destroy towns...
...section of The College. There can be no airtight method of arriving at a true cross section; men may be classified in a multitude of ways; some men will fall in a great many classes, some only in a few. The mathematics of things are too complicated to allow exact treatment, and only a very human sort of approximation can be made. Much depends upon an unbiased attitude on the part of the choosers and a clear sighted understanding of the difficulties of the situation...
...published in another column of this issue of the CRIMSON give some indication of the various classes which the House Masters have considered important and is obviously well adapted to their purpose. The problem of working up the data will be a hard one, and even if an absolutely exact cross section of College were possible there are times when a departure from this ideal would seem advisable especially at first when there are but a few Houses, the masters will be particularly justified in taking more than a pro rata allowance from such groups as students from other nations...
Although his exact topic has not yet been announced, Mr. Benet will probably discuss modern literature in general...
What is the difference between a socialist and a communist? The Vagabond is not asking a conundrum, he is raising a perfectly serious question the exact answer of which puzzles him. Aside from the fact that one associates a socialist with studio teas and a communist with bombs and whiskers, is there any real distinction between the two? Are socialists just communists who bathe regularly? These are all points which , frankly, confuse the Vagabond, and as he feels both these terms he is attending Professor Holcombe's lecture on "Socialism and Communism" at nine o'clock this morning...