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Word: exacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Volunteers from the two institutions will take part in civilian defense tasks at the Boston information Center, the exact nature of which cannot be made public. In a statement on the volunteers' action. Col, Minthorne W. Reed. Commanding Officer of the Boston Air Defense Wing, said that the duties would call for "a sense of loyalty, an appreciation of responsibility, and a spirit of sacrifice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe and Harvard To Join Up Tonight | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...seven co-saboteurs, including Haupt, attended a "sabotage school" at Brandenburg, near Berlin, graduated, were then U-boated to America. "We were to harm, wherever possible, all aluminum production in the United States. . . . The intent was to do the worst possible damage in this country. Our exact assignment was to damage aluminum plants of the Alcoa Company in Tennessee, California and Oregon, and to damage rail lines between these plants and war-production centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sordid Story | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...film's neurosis occurs in Beacon Hill Boston. The agonists are: mother-complicated Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis, looking 20 lb. overweight in flat heels and the inevitable spectacles) and Mrs. Henry Windle Vale ( Gladys Cooper, whose discreet, sociologically exact portrayal of the mother is the best thing in the film). Claude Rains, in a role reminiscent of upper-class New England's late Psycho-messiah Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, helps Charlotte escape from Boston and mother by taking a cruise. On shipboard Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid), a voyaging architect, takes the cure a step further by falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Politics is not an exact science.-Otto Von Bismarck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Members of these groups are asked to be sure to be on time because of the close schedule for taking the pictures. Exact times for the photographs will be announced in the CRIMSON notice column next week, but students are urged to keep those evenings free when they will be photographed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Groups Will Be Photographed | 10/8/1942 | See Source »

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