Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, flew to the defense, said that Professor Lowell's calculations for the position of the planet were approximations, not claimed to be exact; that Lowell Observatory was slow moving, sure of itself, had not given out information until thoroughly checked...
...from 18 to 25. In 1920 when the country was very 'dry' as a result of strict war-time prohibition, the undergraduate must have been between 8 and 15 years old. Hence those who voted on Tuesday and Wednesday formed their first impressions of the liquor situation at the exact period which wets choose as a starting point for their misleading statistics. By way of illustration, in 1911 there were somewhat more than four deaths per 100,000 due to alcoholism; in 1920 the dryest period in history, the figures were a little more than...
...this production of "Menaechmi" every erudite effort has been turned towards an exact classical setting, even to the conventional musical instruments of the times. Although the action is easy to follow, the audience will be given translations prepared by two Club members. Out of the dust of many years, the illimitable swaggerer and beggar, man of the world and man in the street will emerge and command a modern interpretation. It is rumored that the ghost of old Plautus himself, lured from his pleasant Roman Hell by the familiar setting, will chuckle in the wings to frighten the censor...
Philanthropy, no longer merely an expansion of good Samaritanism, now resembles an exact science. The famed Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations apply the precision of the laboratory to the study of human welfare and what money can do to promote...