Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unfortunately, the exact same statement applies to the Crimson, only to a lesser degree, so that tomorrow's match promises to be a battle royal between players who may well tend to blow up if a few bad breaks come their...
...cemetery today care to linger over the tombs or even the magnificent Gothic, Matthewesque chapel. The original chapel began to decompose shortly after it was built, being unfit to bear exposure to the air of this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point on Chapel Hill...
...King Feisal was told to listen hard to the radio. What he heard sent him tearing to the roof of his Bagdad Palace. There, in a stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed in Arabic...
...everything goes according to plan, the show will begin at 8:30 o'clock and take approximately three and a half hours, ending in the vicinity of midnight. The exact time of termination cannot be determined because in previous years the end of the Smoker has often been the occasion for a riot. Before the end of the Smoker night last year, it took a host of proctors, Yard cops, and Cambridge police to break up an attempted repetition of the legendary 1937 Spring "Putsch" on Radcliffe...
...Hygrade Sylvania Corp. engineer, announced the demise of a technical "bug" that has been lurking in the luminescent tubes: the unpredictable "lumen slump" (blackened end-bands, dark streaks and splotches) that afflicts many lamps. Cox's bug killer: a technique for dosing each lamp with the exact amount of mercury needed for adequate ultraviolet radiation...