Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles H. McIlwain, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in American History in 1924, has been appointed to the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University, it was announced Tuesday. He will probably leave within the next two weeks, although the exact date of his departure is unknown. McIlwain's specific functions at Oxford have not yet been revealed...
...Rosenberg and Goebbels, he was a frustrated man of questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper of an audience, and then bend it to his will...
...Republican leaders, including those for whom Willkie is too liberal, are waiting to see how the bandwagons roll. Thus far they are less interested in nominating any particular candidate than in electing some candidate, and primarily interested in the political concessions which California and the other Western states can exact by their convention bargaining. So intent is Governor Warren on retaining this bargaining power that though denying he is either a candidate or anti-Willkie, he told a TIME correspondent last week that if Willkie should enter the California primary "I would indeed exert all my influence...
...operation, it was discovered, required such careful preparation, such exact timing and precise dovetailing of combined efforts. The failure of any one group -the screening warships, or the landing-boat flotillas, or the covering aircraft, or the troops who were dumped ashore-might wreck the whole enterprise. The Navy, naturally, kept command of all the Marine, Army, Air Forces involved. The first operations were described as "confusion - slightly organized...
Long Reach. But the new Mustang's greatest single contribution to the mounting air battle over Europe is its long range; it has whittled a healthy slice out of the danger zone in which daylight bombers must fly without fighter escort to hit distant enemy targets. The exact range is secret, but 1,000 miles might not be a bad layman's guess; on its showing last week, the Mustang might have enough range to fly escort to Berlin...