Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were a diplomatic necessity on which the White House couch talks were based. Let the President hesitate on a detail of India's silver holdings or France's light artillery or Canada's tariff administration-and Expert Moley was close at his side to supply the exact information. Once or twice a day during the week President Roosevelt and his visiting statesmen would issue joint White House communiques about their talks. Like most communiques, these were more concealing than revealing. They dealt almost wholly in generalities. One told how President Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald had laid...
Trucks. Aid was promised the British railroads in increased taxation of motor trucks & lorries. Exact figures were not given for the tax will not go into effect until...
...short appraisal which Professor Palmer once wrote of William James, he affectionately referred to the gusto and positive character of his colleague with the words "James always Wallowed." The phrase, as a glance at his "Autobiography" will reveal, describes the exact opposite of Professor Palmer himself. His interests and character were remote from the contemporary scene, centering on the poet George Herbert, for whom he was named, on classical literature; and, alone perhaps among his contemporaries, in the more traditional aspects of philosophy. He brought to the work of teaching a faith in the critical approach which was both classical...
...more satisfactory. It has been said that the magazine is the site of student opinion, and that it is forced to wait for the expression of this opinion; actually, it is fairly certain that if the editors marshalled and urged out the material it would be at least as exact an approximation to undergraduate thought as it is at present...
...electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester or in front of your next-door garage-except that it stands there in the sand, in the midst of nothingness, in the almost exact geographical centre of the Sahara, stuck there like a pictorial infantile idea of the North Pole, the most lonely and isolated gasoline pump in the world or the universe...