Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week London admirers of the Georgian prepared to place a plaque on the house where he had stayed. But nobody knew the exact street address. To Moscow went an appeal for information. The Kremlin's answer: Joseph Stalin had forgotten too; it was somewhere in the Whitechapel slums...
This sketchy weather plotting has been tough on U.S. weathermen, for the chief cause of northern-hemisphere weather is the "heat balance" between the cold arctic air mass and the warm air near the equator. Lacking exact information about the extreme north, the Weather Bureau could only make shrewd guesses...
...weekend in 1942, The Harvard Glee Club will journey to New Haven and join with the singers of Eli in giving the annual concert of the two clubs Saturday evening, December 1, E. Barr Peterson '47, the Club's manager, revealed yesterday. He gave no details as to the exact hour and place or the procedure for obtaining tickets...
Phony Culture. Author Hauser was raised in old-world Weimar, home of Goethe and Schiller, and one of German culture's most sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the epitome of decadence. When World War I broke out, he and his school friends were deliriously happy at the thought of "action, motor cars and planes, dynamic life...
...weeks that followed weeks, that was all they had. Morbidly Philips and Maclntyre made Zamperini prepare imaginary meals for them, "describing the preparation of each dish, even to the exact quantity of each ingredient." "How Long Will I Last?" On the 27th day a Jap plane spotted them, dived and raked them with machine-gun fire. Philips and Maclntyre, too weak to move, lay in the rafts feigning death. Zamperini went overboard, ducking under each time the Jap plane made a pass, until it finally went away. Unscathed, the three men floated...