Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flyers who accompanied Doolittle, interviewed in Washington, swore with shaking voices that they had bombed nothing but military objectives; that they had even passed up perfect but unscheduled targets in order to follow their orders with exact fidelity...
Details to be released early next week include the exact method of registering for new rooms and choice of roommate. Still very uncertain are the exact groups that will live in the barracks and where each will live...
...services for housing or instruction in addition to that now going on at the University, this latest step has been taken in anticipation of a demand for far more space to house men arriving for the beginning of the summer term. There is no way of knowing the exact number of men to be detailed here, but the space set aside is considered sufficient to take care of any request. Groups which are expected at that time are the Army's Basic Engineering School, Pre-Meds, and Area and Languages School, and the Navy's V-12, NROTC, and various...
...exact number and condition of the Axis force in Tunisia is known, probably, to only a few Germans. The Allies announced that 30,000 prisoners had been captured in all Tunisia since the breaching of the Mareth Line, and unofficial estimates placed Axis battle casualties in the same period at 10,000. The Italian Vittorio Veneto Division was said to have been virtually destroyed. These were losses for Kesselring, but not cataclysmic ones. His remaining force of approximately 175,000 was outnumbered by perhaps 2-to-1. But, considering its advantageous positions, it was by no means broken. It contained...
Since then engineers have found, first by trial & error, then by more exact methods, that almost any soil may be used. On small jobs, little special equipment is needed. The ground is plowed, harrowed and cleared of larger stones. Bags of cement are spotted in a checkerboard pattern. Spread evenly, the cement is mixed dry with ordinary farm machinery, (disc and spring-tooth harrows are good), then sprinkled with water and mixed wet until an even color shows that the mix is right...