Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority conference room. Frayed and weary after four hours of haggling, Senator Robert Taft announced that he was about to start rewriting the Republican policy statement on inflation. Could he give out the gist of it? Not until it was rewritten, said Taft. "The words have to be exact or they don't mean anything," he said, flashing a copy of the statement, which was X-ed out, scrawled over and heavily edited in nearly every line...
...that it formed a special committee, with Dean Henry S. Dyer as chairman, to study the problem last spring. This committee reached no satisfactory solution, but Dyer has not dropped the issue, and is currently sending a questionnaire to schools throughout the nation in an attempt to discover the exact effect of the choice-system. He will report to the College Examination Board in the spring...
...famed journalism school, is not unduly critical of this rubbish. Caught up in the details of exaggerated advertising claims, dubious publishing records and the secretiveness of publishing houses about their sales figures, Dean Mott spends most of his book in an overly conscientious attempt to get at the exact facts about the 324 books he classes as bestsellers* (he excepts Bibles, textbooks, cookbooks). His book's great value is that it is the first thorough exploration into a field which seems much more mysterious the more it is looked into...
...exact positions are doubtful. Hauptfuhrer is being tried at both center and forward, as are Crosby and Rockwell. McCurdy, who had had experience at every post but center, has the speed of an ace forward and also the deadly set-shot of the perfect guard...
President Truman's council of economic advisers announced yesterday that they will probably ask Congress to give outright more than $3,000,000 of aid to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan next year. The exact amount to be proposed for Congressional authorization during 1948 is still being worked out but insiders estimate it at six to seven million dollars...