Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exact make-up of the next Council is still in doubt, Matters said, and this problem is also on the agenda for this evening...
...Although exact details are a military secret, Meryman did divulge that he expects his infernal machine to go 50 miles between re-waterings, but he is still uncertain as to its speed. However, he is supremely confident that it will be the practical solution to the gasoline shortage...
...longing to be a philosopher. "It had burned in his mind as an undergraduate, and he felt himself seduced again by the wonderful talk. But when at the end he closed the door he knew that ... he wanted to put his teeth into something hard and exact; to work like anyone else for a living. Law might be worthy of the interest of an intelligent man, for one could look out of the window of law when one had the facts, and then begin to speculate on life and destiny...
...system uses a blank globe and four drawing instruments to locate positions graphically. The navigator must "shoot the angle" of two stars with a sextant. He marks on his globe the exact substellar spots of these two stars (i.e., the spots where these stars are directly overhead-obtained from star tables). Then he uses these two spots as centers of circles, drawn with the angle measured by sextant. The two circles intersect at two widely distant points; one is the location of the plane. At high speeds and at mind-fogging altitudes the quickness of the method may be literally...
Chicago's A. C. Nielsen Co., whose food, drug and liquor indexes are gospel to U.S. merchandisers, announced the coming of age of its Audimeter, a gadget installed in radio sets that keeps an exact record of the radio's tuning. Seven big-time clients-and their ad agencies are already using the Nielsen Radio Index based on the gadget...