Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assembly also adopted new international rules for the statistical reporting of disease and causes of death. WHO delegates thought this important for two reasons: health services are handicapped in curing the world until they find out what (in exact language) ails it, and they must be sure that a report of "plague" somewhere back of Singapore means the same thing as "plague" in Geneva...
...preparatory commission for the International Refugee Organization reported that, three years after war's end, between eight and twelve million people (including an estimated six million Jews anonymously killed by the Nazis) are still missing and unaccounted for in Europe. The commission made no exact estimate of those missing in Russia, since the Russians are not supplying information to I.R.O...
...Cheer." Author Miller, who teaches at Bryn Mawr, is the author of a biography of Sam Adams and of Origins of the American Revolution. He writes in the carefully documented tradition of Henry Adams-i.e., unsparing, exact, relying largely on original sources, skeptical of pretensions to high motives. There is, in fact, an undercurrent of exasperation in Author Miller's account, as if he placed the grim record of incompetence and theft and treason in evidence, and said: "Now cheer." Curiously enough, the heroism of the seven years' struggle is all the more remarkable in an account...
...foot high, and looks like a surveyor's transit; its four legs are mounted on a ring fixed to the patient's skull by a plaster cast. At the top is a hollow needle containing a fine electric wire. X-ray pictures are taken to establish the exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle is cut out by conventional surgery. Then the needle is lowered like a well-digger's rig into...
...Washington, Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington finally made formal announcement of a fact that had already leaked: the Bell rocket plane XS-1 had flown "much faster than sound."* The exact speed, said Symington, is "an interesting figure...