Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to be the thesis of the Lampoon's high command that their journal is published purely for the amusement of themselves, their minions, and those of their friends who share their exact estimate of what is funny. This would be a valid argument if the Lampoon were typed on Kleenex and passed fraternally from hand to hand. However, the Lampoon is a bona fide publication, "Copyrighted . . . entered at the Boston Post Office," and engaged in selling advertising space to merchants who presumably expect to reach more people than are usually gathered in the Great Hall of the aviary...
...closing time yesterday afternoon 3670 upperclassmen had filed their way through registration at Memorial Hall, bringing the current total number of students in the College to 4,963, Registrar Sargeant Kennedy '28, announced last night. Exact figures are not yet available, but Kennedy estimated last night that late registrations will run to about...
...awful lot of people, these who bought tickets to the Columbia-Harvard football game to be exact, are going to be mighty annoyed this morning, and if they're not, they ought to be. The tickets they bought yesterday would do credit to a freshman at the Yale game, but that's about all. And nothing can be done about...
...General of the Air Force "Hap" Arnold, grounded at Sonoma, Calif, since his retirement in 1946, made one more break with his past. To the local city fathers he presented his collection of model airplanes (more than 65 exact scale models, covering every phase of aviation history, with wingspreads ranging up to 4 ft ). For one thing, they were cluttering up the house, he explained...
...point three kilometers from home . . . When they were released at a predetermined hour, a watcher clocked them back in ten minutes. Though in one case the house was begun and in the other finished and stored with honey, the bees returned, not to their own work, but to the exact spot on which their house had been...