Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their weeping whiskers. . . ." This tone continued for 30-odd years to reverberate at one extreme of the little magazine gamut. But the violence was also disciplined, in its way. In the U.S. it found one outlet in a literary war for imagism, a simple doctrine requiring poetry to be exact rather than mushy. The new little magazine Poetry, founded in 1912, fought to make verse exact as well as free. Vachel Lindsay, T. S. Eliot and others were published first in Poetry. When Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, H. D. et al. won, by the end of the decade...
Until now it has been a tradition never to disclose the recipient of an honorary degree before the presentation takes place. The exact date at which the degrees will be awarded has not as yet been announced...
...items like "a in Thomas a Becket," and "Addison Sims of Seattle.") His cluttered, rolltop desk was buried under facts, but barren of news. He had a scholar's knowledge of Shakespeare, history and cats. Once he went to Europe just to track down elusive points like the exact height of Mary, Queen of Scots (it eluded...
...week later against Tech, in their last tests before the Yale race, the three crews rendered a reasonably exact facsimile of the previous Saturday's Annapolis doings...
...exact position of any one man through the maze of reorganization endured by the Office of Scientific Research and Development and its atomic-energy division, the National Defense Research Committee, would require charts, slide-rules and an intimate knowledge of Washington whimsy. In the case of the men behind the bomb, such a study would only give the diagrammatic relation of man to man and department to subdivision. It would not, for instance, lend itself to an accurate appraisal of Conant's utility as talent scout and supervisor of this talent in the wide area taken in by the Manhattan...