Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure flying continues to grow more & more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...
...amount of information given varies in the different departments. Oddly enough, the worst offenders are among the social sciences: Economics, Government, and History offer only a title as a clue to the subject matter, while an exact science such as Biology gives a good summary. With a new catalogue impending, the various departments should go over their courses with an eye to describing them instead of merely announcing them. The resultant catalogue would be more than an academic menu, and less dishes would be rejected on first taste, to the mutual convenience of undergraduate and administration...
...portrays accurately the writer's character traits, being conditioned by the complexities of his personality. As a result of many investigations within the last two decades, a whole technique has been built around this phenomenon in the form of scientific handwriting analysis, which is considered among the most exact projective methods in order to determine character structure...
...route of the line and its Mediterranean terminus have not yet been determined. The biggest snag in exact planning is troubled Palestine, where Jewish terrorists last week blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline in two places (see FOREIGN NEWS). But Aramco, owned by the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, is so confident of solving-or skirting-such difficulties that it is going ahead full speed. It sent one U.S. expert to Arabia last month to set up the job, will soon send technicians to make final surveys...
...decision was reached as to when this question would come up, it appeared likely that the Council would begin debate on it early next week. The delegates were generally agreed that such a commission should be created, but Russia and the Western Powers were expected to clash over the exact duties and functions of the proposed agency...