Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being waged in Germany and Austria. Paris was only haggling over the peripheries of the peace-Italy, Finland, the Balkans. But they were rough edges, and the Big Four had left many a major issue unsettled in the treaty drafts: the Italo-Yugoslav and Greco-Bulgarian borders, the exact status of Trieste, reparations, Danubian free trade, the disposition of the Italian colonies. Of these problems the delegates of the 21 nations at Paris had not yet solved a single...
...raise musicians' wages last week he did not forget to write a punch line. He wanted a 20% increase for musicians in 1,100 New York night spots. But if the clubs had a floor show he ruled that the musicians deserved a little more-45% to be exact...
...word that has gone out from the lords of the Corporation and Business Office is that Harvard is going to have difficulty meeting operating expenses. In face of rising costs, House rents and food charges have been upped and still there is no ceiling in sight. Almost at the exact time that the University and the nation were sweating through the June inflation scare, the Treasurer of the University made public the gifts and endowments which were to give Harvard its annual infusion of new financial strength. But an analysis of these endowments raises the question of whether these gifts...
They bred large masses of disease germs, learned how to make them as virulent as possible and keep them so. They tested each strain for hardiness and longevity. They determined the exact number needed to start an infection and studied "all possible means of dissemination and routes of entrance into the susceptible individual...
...question is too big or too small. A member from the mining district wants to know why miners in a certain town are being charged for their transportation to and from the mine. The Minister of Labour must answer him and he does. Another member wants to know the exact amount of oil and petrol reserves on hand in England, and the Minister of Fuel and Power answers that it would not be in the best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants...