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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring weather and tepid breezes have called the would-be rowers down to the intersection of Boylston and Memorial in droves, and the river is dotted with scullers with various degrees of proficiency. The embryonic Burks soon realize that rowing the little shell calls for probably more exact form than is required in any other sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single Scullers Throng Charles As Season Opens | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

...gratitude to God for the repeal of Prohibition. The fathers promptly celebrated; unfortunately so did a party in the apartment-house next door. According to the tale, the party eventually addressed their neighbors as "swizzling monks", and the brothers leaned out of the window to reply. Their exact answer has never been recorded...

Author: By F. H. B., | Title: Circling the Square | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

...musical feast, but what is actually offered are the more hackneyed numbers from the Verdi repertoire, indifferently performed and badly integrated with such plot as there is. Gaby Morlay's sensitive acting provides the only stable note in this flabby drama, which amounts, at best, to a tolerably exact biography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...true that the Negro melodies are almost childlike in their simplicity of structure, Consisting in most cases of an eight, twelve, or sixteen bar strain whose exact time and beat division depends upon the words to which it is fitted, the tunes receive full harmonic treatment only in the hands of arrangers. But obviously enough, every theme is simple until it has been subjected to the variation and development of which only highly trained musicians are capable. The principal musical ideas of the world's greatest composers, from Bach to Strawinsky, in their original form might well be and often...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

...conference committee also stated that it had secured time for a half-hour's program over station W.B.Z. and N.B.C.'s New England network. Although the exact time of the program has not yet been determined, it will come sometime between five and nine o'clock on Saturday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOBIN SCHEDULED TO SPEAK BEFORE P.B.H. CONFERENCE | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

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