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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conn, the scene was repeated with variations. The occasion: the first flight of the "Airphibian," a 150-h.p. light plane which can be bisected into an aluminum-bodied automobile.* The builder & demonstrator: Robert Edison Fulton Jr., an architect-turned-engineer and a descendant (he doesn't know the exact relation) of steamboat-builder Fulton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Fulton's Folly, New Version | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Although the results of a poll distributed on a "take-one-if-you-want-one" basis probably cannot be labelled as scientifically exact, the findings of the CRIMSON College Affairs Poll, distributed in the Dining Halls last Wednesday noon, do, to a certain extent, portray in large scale the feelings of the student body on a number of the issues that have arisen during the fall term thus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Prod | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...lunching with a certain president of our University," said he, "when said gentlemen asked me an embarrassingly elementary question concerning the dimensions--the diameter, to be exact--of our planet. Not even chemists can know everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: People Don't Have No Sense, Even Would - Be Journalists | 10/23/1946 | See Source »

With half a dozen of the University's finest parked in their office across the hall, a new organization was born in Grays Hall yesterday. Pooh--Winnie the Pooh to be exact--is the word for the new group, which laid frothy plans for the propagation of A. A. Milne's nonsense throughout the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pooh Fanciers Start Club; Rueter Chosen As Christopher Robin | 10/11/1946 | See Source »

...opening of the Twentieth Century Roscoe Pound was one of the nation's outstanding botanists. He is listed in "American Men of Science" as "one of the 1000 students of the natural and exact sciences in the United States whose work is most important." However, in 1901, the Law, which had been consuming more and more of his time, finally triumphed and botany was relegated to the position of a hobby. For in that year Roscoe Pound, newly appointed Commissioner of Appeals for the Supreme Court of Nebraska, was immersed in straightening out the affairs of a court which...

Author: By W. P., | Title: Faculty Profile | 10/10/1946 | See Source »

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