Word: exacts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first time, the U.S. people had some exact, scientific facts on what happened when The Bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At about 1,800 feet above ground (Japanese figure), it turned into a blue-white ball of energy as bright as a thousand suns. Its initial temperature, if known, has not been told. (The figure, reading in millions or hundreds of millions of degrees, would be meaningless except to physicists...
That the win was the thirteenth of the season, (as against one defeat), made no difference to the Crimson; led by Wyndol Gray with 24 points and Lou Decsi with 21, the Stahlmen had little trouble with the hapless Engineers. The game was a fairly exact duplicate of the first contest between the two teams ten days ago, which the Stahlmen took by a 68 to 47 margin...
...cast's fault that the picture fails to come through. Nor is it Ford's either, for the most part. It is primarily the Hollywood tradition of giving the customer the largest amount of fireworks in the longest possible picture (two hours and fifteen minutes, to be exact) that has conspired to ruin an otherwise excellent war epic...
...Market. The exact shape of the new Sino-Russian relations in Manchuria were still not clear. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at a notable press interview (see above), admitted that in "informal" talks the Russians had asked the Chinese Government for additional economic concessions in Manchuria...
...Edsel Ford is trustee for their shares. The 1,350,000 shares of non-voting stock were turned over to the Ford Foundation, a tax-free charity (Ford Hospital, Greenfield Village, etc.), which the family organized ten years ago. Thus the inheritance tax was comparatively light, although the exact sum is still in dispute between the Ford family and the state...