Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conducted by Hackman Otto Lewis. This is what he read: "The MEANEST RIDER! He rides from Jackson Heights to 52d street & 6th Ave. Just an old grouch as mean as he looks and he looks terrible. Grumbles from the minute he enters your cab until he pays you the exact fare. . . ." And so on for six lacerating paragraphs to the conclusion: "The name of the man who has the somewhat dubious reputation of being . . . the world's worst rider, is Darling...
...researches disclose, there is no authentic, portrait in existence and no exact description of his appearance. The statues in the national capital and in the Vermont State House were posed by Ethan's nephew...
...return of Carol to the throne of Rumania is sure to affect more than the internal situation in that country. The new king, while something of an enigma to political students, is known to have very definite ideas about international affairs. The exact nature or import of these ideas is a question which will occupy the attention of more than one European foreign secretary until such time as some actual portents are visible...
Knowing Alexander's almost negroid penchant for big funerals* two expeditions hope that without too much difficulty they will find traces of his tomb. Britisher Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, proposes to start soon for Alexandria. Says he: "According to Plutarch exact position of Alexander's tomb was unknown. However, it may possibly be found in one of the Royal cemeteries, but I anticipate a long, difficult and expensive search...
...rightly insist that the needs of the individual should be paramount in education, a system is unavoidable if we are to deal with large numbers. There is some justification for dividing formal education into different periods or levels; but it must be borne in mind that there are no exact boundaries traced for each by nature. For convenience we set arbitrary division points; in reality the levels are separated by twilight zones which vary in extent with individual development. For this reason, if for no other, cooperation between those responsible for successive levels is most important, as has already been...