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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study of the spectro-photographs showed Struve several faint lines - which did not come from the Companion itself, but from space around it. Using the exact technique of spectroscopy, he proved that the lines were made by light waves characteristic of iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blue Companion | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...exact, 64 years. Connie broke in as a catcher with the East Brookfield (Mass.) club in 1883, when catchers caught barehanded, on the first bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gracious! Fourth Place | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...that. It provided that tenants could be evicted if the owner of an apartment or house 1) needed it for himself, or 2) had sold it to someone who needed a place to live. Last week, as both tenants and landlords consulted their lawyers, the chances were that the exact size of the co-op loophole would have to be determined by a test case* in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Landlord's Chance | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...once hostile Gentile* world no longer howls for Mormon blood. This week a Mormon party of 143 men, three women and two children-the exact complement of Brigham Young's advance guard in the great trek of 1847-started west from Nauvoo, Ill. to commemorate that event. They anticipated nothing more dangerous than flat tires and Chamber of Commerce luncheons. Their shiny new Buick and Studebaker automobiles were disguised by plywood oxen and white canvas tops. To please the church's publicity department, they camped out every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: A Peculiar People | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Sometimes Herald readers try to pin Dan Poling down on his exact shade of belief. In the current issue someone asked flatly whether he is a modernist or a fundamentalist. After hedging a bit, he blithely suggested that perhaps he is a "gentle fundamentalist." Dr. Dan has little time for pondering the subtleties of his religion -he is much too busy working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dynamo of Good Will | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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