Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solvent U.S. railroads are now earning their fixed charges better than two and a half times over, but some of their bonds are still selling at discounts up to 40%. On March 2, to be exact, some $5,000,000,000 of nonbankruptcy rail bonds had a market value of about...
...were his pupils in a laboratory. Said one of them last week: "McNaughton had us on hilltops, in trees, day and night, clocking the enemy firing, until he had located every enemy battery on our front. He had us out digging craters for shell fragments until he knew the exact size of every enemy battery and the caliber of every...
...unannounced number of men will make up a new class every few months, the exact number and frequency of arrival being a military secret...
...course, will enter one of the reserves as soon as possible, or plunge into Japanese or Russian. Courses of special use in the war will be recommended to men in economics or physics, while those in the enlisted reserve will be urged to acquire the rudiments of an exact science. Most Yale men, like students everywhere, will adapt their schedules...
...most shuddered-at paintings. That Which I Should Have Done, I Did Not Do. The picture Albright did do occupied him for ten years, won a $500 prize at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Temple Gold Medal at Pittsburgh's Carnegie. It is an intricate, super-exact picture of a moldering mortuary door, and show's one touch of life-a woman's gnarled, bejeweled hand. The girl model for the hand posed every Sunday for a year. "She had a wonderful leg," quips Ivan of that which does not appear in the picture...